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Threatening emails like this -- purporting to be from the Proud Boys -- are being sent to voters in Florida and Alaska.
We do not know who is behind them, but whoever it is is taking a lot of steps to mask their identity.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/threatening-emails-sent-to-voters-florida-alaska/index.html
We do not know who is behind them, but whoever it is is taking a lot of steps to mask their identity.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/threatening-emails-sent-to-voters-florida-alaska/index.html
One email we looked at @jsrailton had been sent using internet infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
Does this mean it came from Saudi? No.
Does this mean it came from Saudi? No.
Vice earlier reported an email they looked at -- with the same message, but to a different voter -- had been sent through infrastructure in Estonia. @misstessowen @lorenzofb https://www.vice.com/en/article/88a43b/proud-boys-emails-threatening-florida-voters-appear-to-use-spoofed-email-address
"This isn't someone with a fake email account sending messages. This is an operation. The questions will be: how big was it, how many were targeted, and how well were tracks covered," @jsrailton told me.
Proud Boys say it wasn't them.
Remember people are posing as different groups online to stoke tensions.
Earlier this summer a white suprematist group posed as Antifa. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/tech/antifa-fake-twitter-account/index.html
Remember people are posing as different groups online to stoke tensions.
Earlier this summer a white suprematist group posed as Antifa. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/tech/antifa-fake-twitter-account/index.html
