DANGER: IMPORTANT for people with friends in Afghanistan
Spoofing is going on apparently to draw Afghans into traps, and for fraudulent fundraisers.
One method we are seeing many times daily — meaning it’s probably happening on a huge scale — is calls and texts are coming from American numbers, pretending to be U.S. State Department. When we check, the numbers are not legitimately from State Department.
There are also frauds saying they are from U.N. (Notwithstanding that U.N. Is a giant fraud, but that’s a separate issue.)
Attached is a fraud fundraiser saying it is for Task Force Pineapple. TFP is real. I am in contact with them many times per day. Dozens. TFP is legit. I know from behind the scenes that TFP is accruing successes, but with many problems mostly due to United States government.
This video from Lara Logan is legitimate and accurate to my knowledge.
Lara is a rare war correspondent it that she is real. There is as much stolen valor among war correspondents as there are fake “Delta-Seal-Marines who were Ranger-Green Berets.” So much fakery you ...