Re: [FRIAM] InformedElectorate (= votethewill.com)

[Dean Gerber]

Nick--
It is a scam.
--Dean 

On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:09 PM, Nick Thompson 
 wrote:
 

 Hi, 
everybody,   I have been pestered by an organization called InformedElectorate 
asking me if I want to join a group of a half million people who will be 
regularly surveyed on important questions of the day.  They use a very odd 
system of semi-robocalls.  On the first call, I said, sure why not?  ON the 
second call  they blasted me with an screed for a donation of 25 dollars to 
cover the “large expenses” of their effort.  If I weren’t such an old Yankee 
skinflint, I might have gone for it.  But it began to seem to me that for 12.5 
million dollars forms the basis for a mighty good business plan.  I am trying 
to confirm that it is a scam, but until that time, I thought I would alert you 
all.  FWIW, they made scambusters.    Now, you’re all going to write back 
telling me that OF COURSE it’s a scam; why am I so late to the party?    
Signed,   Your Naïve Old Yankee Skinflint.    Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus 
Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark 
Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/  

FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove

   
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove

[FRIAM] InformedElectorate (= votethewill.com)

[Nick Thompson]

Hi, everybody, 

 

I have been pestered by an organization called InformedElectorate asking me
if I want to join a group of a half million people who will be regularly
surveyed on important questions of the day.  They use a very odd system of
semi-robocalls.  On the first call, I said, sure why not?  ON the second
call  they blasted me with an screed for a donation of 25 dollars to cover
the “large expenses” of their effort.  If I weren’t such an old Yankee
skinflint, I might have gone for it.  But it began to seem to me that for
12.5 million dollars forms the basis for a mighty good business plan.  I am
trying to confirm that it is a scam, but until that time, I thought I would
alert you all.  FWIW, they made scambusters.  

 

Now, you’re all going to write back telling me that OF COURSE it’s a scam;
why am I so late to the party?  

 

Signed, 

 

Your Naïve Old Yankee Skinflint.  

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 


FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove