In the blink of an eye, Wanda Tima watched the community Facebook page she started 13 years ago slip out of her control and into the hands of a hacker.
“I just saw some stuff happening, you know with his screen, and I was like, oh my God,” Tima said.
Tima runs “The Haitian American” Facebook page, which has over 460,000 followers. Followers visit the page to see positive videos, articles, and information for the Haitian community.
But after Tima was hacked, the positive content her followers were used to switched to political content with disparaging comments about Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Literally every single one or something about it was pro-Trump against the Democratic Party,” Tima said.
She was the victim of a phishing scam.
“They try to lure you into believing that you are talking with the right person. But in reality, they are talking with a scammer that the only thing that they want is …