Aug 17, 2014
After receiving over a dozen messages from these [***]-hats while I was on vacation last week, I finally answered. It is an automated political "survey" for the upcoming Florida elections. Somehow I ended up on the GOP's contact list several years ago, and I have been getting spam like this ever since. I put "survey" in quotes, because the questions are all subjective. They are just trying to figure out where you are on the political spectrum so they can target you for donations. The number is assigned to Intermedia, LLC, which has nothing to do with this spam. They are just the phone service provider. Nevertheless, they need to be contacted so they know that they are hosting these bottom feeders on their phone network. The reason they leased a number with the 850 area code is so that it appears that the call is coming from Tallahassee, Florida, where the state capital is located. I don't think the company running the survey is located in Florida.
I'll be letting the GOP know my displeasure with their fund-raising tactics. I'm actually an independent, but live in a very conservative county in Florida, so the only way my vote counts is to vote in the primaries, which are closed. Thus, I'm a registered Republican, better known as a RINO to actual conservatives.