Warning!! Email campaign for donations

[meg44]

I was just forwarded an email from another Ron Paul supporter (who in turn had been forwarded this email) I'll post it below. In a nutshell it is a campaign to get 1000,000 people to pledge $7 a month to Ron Paul. Sound like a good idea to me.

BUT

We have to be VERY suspicious of any email that links to a screen asking for your credit card information or other personal information. I'm not saying this is a scam; but I can tell you from personal experience that these types of scams (particularly using Paypal) are rampant and they look GOOD. The web page you are taken to looks EXACTLY like the real thing; it's a perfect mirror site; then you plug in your credit card and your cooked.

Does anyone know who started this $7/month campaign idea; is it legit? If so, the guy has got to stop linking from his email.

Here's the original email I was forwarded:


QUOTE
Cynicism and defeatism are NOT options to be entertained.

"We are in the eleventh hour of losing this Nation..."

Consider the only Conservative Presidential Candidate...

Welcome my name is: Joel Lemieux I am retired and currently live

in the beautiful mountains of Western NC... I Have been an avid

supporter of Dr Ron Paul... "We have to get Ron Paul elected,

firstly and foremost, in the primaries"... Then on to the

Presidency!!!

http://leadership2008...

However, if this is to come about (Ron Paul 2008) we will require

a war chest... We are attempting to get (1) one Million people to

send Ron Paul only $7.00 each per Month.

Donate here > https://www.ronpaul2008.com/forms/contribute.cfm


Meanwhile Consider The Following:

Our Only Choice!!! Leadership 2008

Can Ron Paul Win? On The Issues - A Resounding YES!

Knowing this let us then look at the most important benefit? that

Ron Paul brings to the Presidency...

"Leadership"

Leadership is Action Through *Example Not Position...

(It is not a position of power nor being in the right place at the

right time, neither define leadership).

It is defined by setting the example through taking action on such

Leadership Traits as Truthfulness! Honesty! Fidelity!

Ron Paul Has Acted Admirably On All These Leadership Traits:

?Truthfulness? first and foremost? Then: Principle, Integrity,

Honesty,* Fidelity (to their oaths), Honor, Virtue, Compassion,

Courage, Vision, Wisdom and Faith.

DARE TO COMPARE

Can anyone bring forth any other candidate (GOP or DEM, etc.) that

can lay claim to all of these characteristics?

I believe we are all hard pressed to do so... ?Strike That?. I

"KNOW" we ARE hard pressed!

Check out this site it may give you some promo assistance... It

has a promo area where everything can be printed out for free...

It also has "send to friends" area for e-mailing... Hope this

helps you ...

http://leadership2008...

Get the word out "SHARE" with your friends... And don't forget the

$7 per Month "we all can afford that" remember each of us do not

need to get thousands of people... just set a weekly goal and

have any/all of your friends duplicate your efforts... It will be

persistence and perseverance that will elect Ron Paul...

PS: Start with flyers at the Universities put one on each and

every bulletin board on campus also look for support from the

student GOP... Then have them go to other campus's... Also, don't

forget High School Seniors- by the time elections roll around they

will be old enough to vote! UNQUOTE

 

[ronpaulitician]

Don't use it.

Just donate directly to Ron Paul at ronpaul2008.com.

No need to find out if it is legit or not.

 

[RonPaul4President]

The site you are telling us to use is the exact same url in the original poster's quote. Can someone confirm that ronpaul2008.com is endorsed by Ron Paul and not a scam site? I raised this before but it got buried.

 

[theoddity]

This looks to be legit. The address that links is the exact same one as used by the official site, and you can't mask the address that shows up in the url line of your web browser.

Though it's legit, it "sounds" like it's a scam and sounds like some sort of pyramid scheme, so if anything, the email was poorly created and will just be seen as spam.

 

[vertesc]

It's a great idea, but the email looks a LOT like a scam. Poor english, etc.

The link is to ronpaul2008.com though, which means that RP will actually be getting the money. Interesting.

We should start a campaign on this forum, contribute $10/month to RP.

 

[ronpaulitician]

$50 sent just now

 

[RonPaul4President]

Never mind. Sorry.

 

[ronpaulitician]

http://www.ronpaulpresident2008.com/?gclid=CIefgIn2uIwCFRK1YgodcmfDRQ

The above url impies it is the "official website". So which is it?

Actually, it implies that www.ronpaul2008.com is the official website (click the "more" link).

 

[NMCB3]

Don't use it.

Just donate directly to Ron Paul at ronpaul2008.com.

No need to find out if it is legit or not.

Yes, its my understanding that is the official site.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

There are costs to the campaign for receiving a donation, though small, in the form of credit card fees and the time for the office staff to process it. So if you can only afford to give $10 a month, still do donate, but maybe do it every other month for $20. Or if you can give more than $10, do so. Just something to consider.