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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
You know, my brother-in-law (in Pennsylvania) told my husband the same thing. He said it asked a lot of personal information about banking and credit card accounts and such, too.  I told him that it couldn't be the government census, but he insisted it was . . . until he got the real one. Now he says that it was something else, yet he didn't say what. Can't imagine what it really was, unless it was a scam.  Hope yours wasn't. |
We just went through the Census, in the form of a couple of interviewers canvassing our building. They certainly didn't ask about banking or credit cards. All of their questions were impersonal and aggregate: age, sex, ethnic group, number of folks living there - the sorts of questions I'd expect of a survey designed to gather data about just how many people live in the US and their demographic breakdown.
You
are legally required to answer the questions. I know folks who've worked as census takers, and they've told stories about privacy obsessed folks refusing to admit they
existed, let alone anything else. The supervisor for the area got to go and explain that yes, they were required to cooperate, they were welcome to confirm that with their lawyer, and if they still refused, a hefty fine from the government might convince them their "I don't have to talk to you!" belief was mistaken.
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Dennis