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How is this not The Onion?

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This is very misleading!

CrowdStrike did not send gift cards to customers or clients. We did send these to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation. Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates.

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Nice gesture I guess, but kinda just the modern day pizza party

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OK. That makes a lot more sense.

Thank you for correcting the original post. 👍

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I mean, it makes it a little better, but I’d still be annoyed by it just being 10 bucks.

They might as well not do it. I’d be more insulted than a boss throwing a pizza party

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Seriously, ten bucks won’t even cover delivery costs and fees for most things on Uber Eats. It’s almost worse than nothing, because with the gift card you’re obligated to give even more money to Uber Eats

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Oh yeah for sure, I wonder if the thinking was “we’re about to lose a bunch of money, maybe limit it a little” 😂

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This would be even funnier if there was exactly one $10 gift card everyone has to fight over.

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Actually the code didn’t work for some

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The codes are as available as a system with the Falcon sensor

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After the lawsuits, it might be all they can afford

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This is a typical mail a phishing campaign would send out, and we have already said to people "never believe this kind of messages. They are all fake.

Now, if a genuine company sends out mails with a genuine gift-cards (what the article on techcrunch seems to indicate) … this is NOT helpfull at all!!!

And that comming from a cybersecurity company (rolling-eyes)

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Buy a $10 Xbox gift card and send us the code so that we can activate it. Then you get back to the shop and get $20 in cash - $10 for returning the card and $10 from us. We’ll pay the tax, too.

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Sounds like a money laundering sceme!

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No. They will just use the $10 card and leave. They will prey on the fact that “get a gift card for your computer troubles” is something a legitimate company has done.

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