One-time cop and perpetual candidate Loren Culp fell for “a common phishing scam.”
“Culp claimed … that Facebook had notified him it was about to delete his campaign page” and lit into Big Tech, the Tacoma News Tribune reported here. “But Facebook says it sent no such notice.” The page is still up and Facebook said it has no plans to remove it.
Culp sent out a fundraising appeal to supporters showing “an emailed notice, ostensibly from Facebook but containing grammatical errors,” TNT said, whose reporter apparently saw the “notice” and said it’s “similar or identical to phishing hoaxes that have been publicly flagged by fact-checking organizations and other online publications.”
“Such messages impersonate legitimate businesses and try to trick people into clicking links and revealing personal information,” the TNT story noted, adding, “Facebook has a page warning users about such fraudulent emails.”
What a dummy. He can’t even do a decent impersonation of a comedian. By the way, do you even care what office he’s running for? If you’re curious, read the TNT story.