Des Moines campaign phone banker warns of fake events

DES MOINES, Iowa — Holly Shkolnick recently started participating in phone banking for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.

After going to a couple of phone banking events that were listed on a website for specific areas Shkolnich and her mother and sister decided to go to another one being held just outside of Indianola.

“Nothing looked off about it. I mean, when you sign up for an event on Mobilize, like you put in your details, you get an email, you get a text and it says like ‘hey, you’re signed up for this’,” said Shkolnick. “I got an email with information that said ‘bring your laptop, bring your cellphone’ and often times you don’t really meet the organizers of the event until you are at the event. So nothing seemed off about it.”…

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