“I thought that this was some type of fraud,” Russian Artyom Vysokov told BuzzFeed News. “Sending such text messages through a service that usually sends spam was not the best idea.”
, Iranians were sent the same messages to their cellphones. Written in Russian and Farsi the text messages say: “The United States pays up to $10 million for any information on foreign interference in American elections.” They include a link to the US Rewards for Justice Program, which offers cash bounties in return for information about threats to American national security.
BuzzFeed News has reached out to the State Department for further comment and will update this story with any response., Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova poked fun at Pompeo’s announcement, joking that many people would want to cash in on the offer. “Now the State Department’s site will go down from denunciations about its neighbors,” she wrote..
The State Department’s blanket text-message campaign comes after Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, which cast a shadow over the presidency of Donald Trump. Ahead of the November election, Democratic lawmakers have raised the alarm about what they say are active attempts by Russia to interfere andOf particular concern to Democrats is an inquiry being led by Republican Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is looking at the work that Joe Biden’s son Hunter did in Ukraine while Biden was the Obama administration’s point man in the country.to in his inquiry, an accusation that the Republican senator denies.
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