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PSA: Don't click on any links you receive from unsolicited political fundraising campaigns. You never know where or what that link will lead to.

Delete the message and block the sender. If you want to make a donation to something, you know where to go for it.

^ When your emotions are running high, that's when you're most vulnerable to manipulation. And you can bet your ass that people will try to exploit that fact.

^^ Boosting this because wouldn't you know it, I received this earlier today.

It sure looks and sounds legit, but there is ***no f-ing way*** I'm clicking on that sketchy-looking link.

^ If you had nefarious intent, It would take no more than a couple minutes to grab a photo of KH, write a couple paragraphs, and add a link to your malware deployment server. This would be a low-sophistication attack, relatively speaking.

@voltronic
Oh my. Oddly, I got this same bs 10 minutes after donating to her. Hmmm.

@voltronic That does look a dodgy link. I wouldn't click on it either

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I love deleting and blocking text messages unopened. Gives me a tiny bit of power, I think.

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