I shared the video on Twitter and heard from a few other people who received the same call chimed in too. The message above is missing the intro, but Gizmodo reports the caller claims to be part of Citizens For Trump. The phone number used for this call belongs to a company often used by scammers for sending outgoing robocalls. It’s unclear what the people behind this scam are trying to achieve, are they trying to scare people who have posted about Trump lately or are they trying to sound like such an obvious scam that conservatives will think they are a liberal hoax trying to defame the president? Maybe it’s a hoaxer intending to further anger liberals?
Unless part of the message got cut off before the voicemail began recording, the voice on the line doesn’t state who they are, but it’s clear they are trying to impersonate someone with authority. Here’s a full transcript:
We’ll we’ve been monitoring some of your posts and it does seem that you’ve been making some rather negative comments about President Trump.
Is that correct? Listen. We’re going to have to ask you to lay off on the negative and derogatory posts about President Trump, okay?
What’s your problem anyways? Don’t you want to make America great again?
Ok, well you’ve been warned. We’ll be keeping an eye on you. Have a nice day.
A few weeks ago, people in Alabama started receiving similar robocalls from someone claiming to be from the Washington Post and offering big bucks for false accusations about Roy Moore. These fake calls were intended to anger conservative voters who already held biases believing the liberal media was out to slander Moore. Could this new call be from the same organization? Are they dialing random numbers or targeting specific lists of phone numbers? How can we find out more about them? Either way, threatening phone calls like this are against the law in Florida.
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