I am approached to take part in research on behalf of KVK. Is this safe?

The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce KVK works with external partners to get to know entrepreneurs better through customer research. KVK uses the insights from the research to improve its provision of services. The researchers usually approach entrepreneurs by email, or sometimes also by telephone.

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Researchers approach entrepreneurs to ask for their opinions on KVK via various email addresses.

Starting on Friday, 22 August, we will send an email from the email address: KVK@marketresponse.nl with the subject line: “Survey: What is your opinion about KVK?”.

From Wednesday 10 September, we will send an email from the email address KVK@miles-research.com with the subject line “Share your opinion and experiences about your entrepreneurship”. Entrepreneurs will receive a reminder after approximately one week.

False emails, letters, phone calls and text messages regularly circulate from scammers pretending to be from KVK. This is called phishing. The emails mentioned above are really from KVK. They are also listed under KVK’s safelist for email addresses.