Received a scanned image from a friend September 25, 2010. That image made me go webcrawling because it made me go, "Hmmm... That's not right." The image is of the letter my friend received from the Research Triangle Institute and, to me, it's very questionable.
Why is it "very questionable"? First: Why on earth does the U.S. Government have to hire outside help to perform a U.S. Public Health Services survey? That's the header on the page; it's the U.S.P.H.S. letterhead. Why use an outside source to do this? After all, they have the resources and they have employees, or they could hire people to do the work without getting a third person involved. Why hire someone else to do this? And, why at this time (more on that later)?
Second: If you read the letter, they say that the people being interviewed are going to -- if qualified to participate in the actual survey (more on that later) -- receive thirty dollars each. There could be multiple people in the same household "chosen to participate", thus there could be almost one hundred dollars in the household given to people to answer questions regarding "health-related issues". So over 6 million taxpayer dollars are given to RTI to go house to house and ask "health-related issues" questions. Will you really be answering "health-related issues" questions, or will they be more related to something else?
Read the rest here.
Definitely a scam, in my opinion. I got an email today supposedly from UPS saying a package sent to me was not delivered on time and they needed information --- my security system caught a HUGE virus attached - deleted it, thank God.
ReplyDeleteThat one has been going around Ms Lady. My boss opened one from FEDEX and shut the companies computers down. We got the "my father is a nigerian prison" one by FAX machine last week. I guess they figure if one person falls for it.
ReplyDeleteMy concern with the one talked about in the blog is why the hell is the Government paying people to answer a survey. I wish I would get this letter in the mail.
Fishygal, Exactly! Why is this something that over $6 MILLION taxpayer dollars should be spent on?
ReplyDeleteSCC< I think that is what I said. Why the hell would the Government pay people to take a survey?
ReplyDeleteThis whole thing is wrong and an example of crap the Government does all the time. You caught this but how many other things like this are going on. It's Pork. Have you sent this to Nelson, Lemiux, Rubio, Grayson, Kosmos etc? Did any of them have an explaination?
I'm betting you'd get a better answer out of Bill Posey's office. I think I'll give it a try.
ReplyDeleteGood Thought Grumpy keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteMy oh my Grumpy. I just checked the Spam. Seems someone does not think very highly of you or I. Oh well, Easier to appreciate intelligence and good friends when exposed to ignorance and fools.
ReplyDeleteYep, Fishy tagged one this morning
ReplyDeleteInteresting story about spam..the email..not the mystery meat.
ReplyDeleteIn the early days, before the internet, computers were linked to each other in local networks. In Arizona there was a network that linked 11,000 people within the Phoenix area.
An Immigration lawyer accidentally sent out a message and forgot to put the address of who he wanted to send it to. All 11,000 received the message..suddenly he received thousands of complaints...and that's just another reason lawyers bug me.