Former White House social media director Dan Scavino took to Truth Social this week to say his username on the struggling right-wing social media platform had been hijacked by someone selling fake Trump 2024 “gold cards”.
“To whomever [sic] is grifting and scamming using [my] username … here on Truth Social enjoy your final moments of using my name/photo to scam and sell fake Trump 2024 Golden Cards,” Scavino wrote on his profile on Monday.
“You should refund everyone whom you’ve sold them to. If you don’t, they should sue you. I’m coming after your web site [sic] next, with a cease and desist letter.”
Trump’s Save America PAC first started issuing official Trump “gold cards” to donors last month. The plastic cards, which range from $45 to $2,500, come in four different designs and resemble credit cards, although they don’t have any actual monetary value. The PAC hawked four similar “red cards” back in August.
Hijacked usernames are about the last thing Donald Trump’s problem-plagued social media site needs right now. The platform is barely off the ground months after its wobbly launch, and the prospect of scammers commandeering user information may further discourage people to sign on.
People noted on Twitter that they’ve also been targeted by sales pitches for Trump 2024 “Gold Cards.” Some critics wondered what the difference is between real and fake gold Trump cards.
@DanScavino
I have been getting LOADS of those scam messages about Gold Cards that you mention on TruthSocial. The latest one purports to come from Jr.? I ask you, what sort of idiot gets taken in by such BS???? pic.twitter.com/72e9QSK5h3— Nitrous Oxide ??????? ?? (@IamVyv) May 2, 2022
In other Truth Social news, Trump himself finally started posting to the platform last Friday after being conspicuously MIA since it first launched back in February.
“I’M BACK!” he posted along with a photo of himself standing outside Mar-a-Lago and the hashtag “#COVFEFE”, a reference to the bizarre tweet he wrote in 2017 before he was banned from Twitter.
Here’s what folx on Twitter are saying about Scavino’s Truth Social profile hijacking…
How dare you scam my grift!!! pic.twitter.com/U0EikBrdaq
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 2, 2022
Anyone who buys one of these cards is being scammed, regardless of where or who they buy it from.
— VegasGuy (@Guy04795899) May 2, 2022
They aren’t gold cards, they’re golden cards and that’s everything.
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) May 2, 2022
The Truth Social Security team is apparently about to release a statement. pic.twitter.com/NVY2GE5hBK
— louvegh (@louvegh) May 2, 2022
The best people. Believe them. 😂😂😂
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) May 2, 2022
Apparently there are free speech restrictions on Truth Social.
— JohnnySoCo (@jayce1315) May 2, 2022
It’s just a lil glitch No worries though. Mr Nunez will fix’er all up in a few more weeks. Months. Years?? 😊 (has he been paid yet??) pic.twitter.com/vg9HuqvjkU
— Dogs/R/Better/Than/Us (@Johng1154) May 2, 2022
So we have one intelligent user confirmed.
— BootsDee 🇺🇸🌊 (@realBootsDee) May 2, 2022
They are never going to figure out the difference between your and you’re, are they?
— 🍪 JNO (@jonasnolsen) May 2, 2022
Narrator: They, in fact, did not know they were being scammed, again.
— Kent Nelson (@Dr_Fate73) May 2, 2022
Mister P
But that guy was just exercising his free speech.
Cam
Exactly, Free Speech and Capitalism, Truth Social should have no problem with that. LOL
bachy
Truth Social can be viewed as a purely Trumpublican virtual society, unrestricted by those pesky, time-honored, Democratic values and sentiments. It will be interesting to watch its evolution. I’m guessing there is a virtual, fascist coup coming.
Heywood Jablowme
Devin’s cow did it!
BDAguy
Gee, scammers getting scammed… I mean any Trump acolyte is already well into scam artistry so it’s oddly fun to see the grifters get grifted… well played, karma, we’ll played.
johncp56
Yaa and it is the Russians LOL the scummy creep needs a bit of his own shit
Invader7
KARMA !!!
CNY1983
jewish space lasers again or hugo chavez? in any case release the crackens…..
mailliw110
There’s a difference? Is one “real” gold and the other isn’t? Or are they both fake, because neither one is real gold, just golden color.