See, my view is that if I don’t send it back, and they have to send out a person, that’s a job created.  This is 1 on 1, the government actively helping out a citizen in a bad economy, so that’s good.  Much better than paying for life support of companies that then turn around and mug the very people that helped them *cough*Bank of America*cough*.  While the folks running the budget for the census might disagree, if everyone didn’t send in the forms, think how many jobs would be created.

So here’s my question that I sent in along with the reference number.   I’ll let you know what they say.

If I don’t send in the census form will a census employee instead be dispatched to get the answers?  I’m happy to answer the questions, but since not sending in the form helps create a job in a poor economy, I’m happier to have an employee dispatched.   In fact, if everyone did that, it would make a wonderful grass roots jobs stimulus program.

Reference number:

100309-000621

Here’s one example from a message in my spam trap:

http://chavdaphotographers.com/gallery/online.bankofamerica.com/

online.bankofamerica.com/ccss-rva.bankofamerica.com/ccss/102%26target=
acctOverview%26acid=1%26os/SSOEntrypageid=102%26target=
acctOverview%26acid=/onlineid-sessionload/signon.do/

Three free bits of advice, take them for what you will:

1. Don’t ever click a log-in link from an email.  Go to the site in question and log in correctly.
2. In many cases, if you move your mouse over a link you can see the destination in the browser’s status bar.  At best it should direct you to the actual site you think it’s heading towards.   Just be wary of bankoffamerica.com or bankofameirca.com   Two misspellings that look so similar to the real thing you might be fooled.
3. Be wary of bit.ly and other types of shortened links in email.  You can’t see the destination of where they’ll take you, it’s best just not to click on them.