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As some of you may know I have posted many messages on here critical of guns, the NRA and of gun cultural. Yet, just today I received a letter at my office from none other then the NRA. What is alarming about this is:
1.) I only post messages on City-Data from my office, of which I am not listed on the address. The letter was addressed to me and sent to my office. The IP location from which I post on City-Data.
2.) The only other mail I personally receive to my work location are a handful of items related to business that I specifically signed up for. None of which are political in nature. The other people that work at my address with me did not receive a similar letter. One of which is a registered gun owner.
2.) I am not nor have I ever been a gun owner.
3.) Nobody else in my building received a similar letter.
4.) I'm Middle Eastern and a registered democrat, hardly the NRA's target audience.
5.) I don't debate, write, talk, blog or any other form of electronic communication in relation to gun control, except on this forum.
6.) My criticisms of the NRA and guns is not widely know amongst friends and family.
If this was sent to my home address I wouldn't be alarmed since I would assume its just mass marketing but the fact it was sent to a listed business and the location from which I have posted messages on here critical of the NRA is rather dubious.
The letter came with a membership form for the NRA and a bunch of coupons for free gun related accessories. So I am pretty confident its not a prank.
Should I be alarmed by this or is it a very very strange coincidence? Also read the letter if you can, its absolute unhinged.
I bet there is more than one NRA member watching and participating in this forum.
As some of you may know I have posted many messages on here critical of guns, the NRA and of gun cultural. Yet, just today I received a letter at my office from none other then the NRA. What is alarming about this is:
1.) I only post messages on City-Data from my office, of which I am not listed on the address. The letter was addressed to me and sent to my office. The IP location from which I post on City-Data.
2.) The only other mail I personally receive to my work location are a handful of items related to business that I specifically signed up for. None of which are political in nature. The other people that work at my address with me did not receive a similar letter. One of which is a registered gun owner.
2.) I am not nor have I ever been a gun owner.
3.) Nobody else in my building received a similar letter.
4.) I'm Middle Eastern and a registered democrat, hardly the NRA's target audience.
5.) I don't debate, write, talk, blog or any other form of electronic communication in relation to gun control, except on this forum.
6.) My criticisms of the NRA and guns is not widely know amongst friends and family.
If this was sent to my home address I wouldn't be alarmed since I would assume its just mass marketing but the fact it was sent to a listed business and the location from which I have posted messages on here critical of the NRA is rather dubious.
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The letter came with a membership form for the NRA and a bunch of coupons for free gun related accessories. So I am pretty confident its not a prank.
Should I be alarmed by this or is it a very very strange coincidence? Also read the letter if you can, its absolute unhinged.
Hey! NRA! If you're reading, can I have some of those coupons?
Who knows. This happened to me:
I have a friend Al. He had a cheating wife Beth who had affair with Chad. Chad has a wife Doris.
Doris showed up on my linkedin suggestions even though:
I have never net either chad or doris.
I have never dealt with either chad or doris.
Neither chad nor doris are in my industry or anything related.
Chad and doris are 600 miles away.
I never looked up chad or doris on linkedin
That one freaked me out.
How about this one:
In the past, most spam mail I got was "from" an old friend's name, or my brother's name, as I have emailed them in the past. It became clear that Google sold my information as well as my contacts info.
Recently, a neighbor's adult daughter was helping me with rides to/from mechanic when I was getting my car fixed. Because of this, she and I would text back and forth about it. Her name is..."Jasmine".
I hardly ever use the phone, let alone text, and I never go online on my phone, so my phone and my email address are in no way connected by me.
Now, all of a sudden, all of the spam email I get is from "Jasmine" despite me never once emailing "Jasmine", the neighbor's daughter.
I received the same letter. It's 2 and a half pages long with a membership form and an offer for a free NRA duffle bag if you sign up. I'm certainly not "alarmed" about it. It's about as threatening as an offer for a magazine subscription.
I don't recall specifically posting on any NRA threads. I did post in the "Yeti" thread, but about coolers, not the NRA.
If they are that paranoid and that desperate for membership, they should just open a kiosk in a mall.
Who cares.... You do.
Or you would not have wasted your precious time here.
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