Is this "legitimate"?

[kinzel]

I got two phone calls so far today, one sort of real, for minutes for my cellphone and the other very ... iffy...

Is there really a  "grassroots" effort to insist that the census add information on the number of Americans with diabetes? I guess i could have pressed one to find out, but I do  not need to give any possible telescam artitsts permission to list  my phone number... but seriously "if you have or know someone who has diabetes, press one now" cannot result in accurate numbers, I think

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Sounds totally scammy. Census has *no* medical information at this point.

[baobrien.livejournal.com]

Some historic censuses captured some health data - but that was in the days when everyone was counted by an official enumerator. The Census Bureau's mandate is to count everyone in the country - if they started asking questions like that, their response rate would drop, their personnel costs would rise, and they'd be giving ammunition to the looony groups that think the census is giving the government a secret database of confidential info about all Americans.

[sibylle]

It does indeed sound like a scam!


You have reached an imaginary number, rotate your phone 90° and try again... .

[sethb.livejournal.com]

If it were a grassroots effort, you'd hear about it from someone you know, not a telespammer.

[(Anonymous)]

I filled my census form out and it had nothing on medical stuff. I was very tempted to list my race as OTHER: HUMAN but I know what they need it for.

Phone scam, IMHO
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