A week into December, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is emailing residents that their heat is about to get cut off — except the alarmist messages from his campaign are actually just misleading fundraising pitches.
“Your heat will be turned off. Emergency Notice,” reads an unsettling email notification a South Carolina resident received on their phone on Wednesday.
After clicking on the alert, it leads to an email with the same subject line, “Your heat will be turned off.”
It’s only after opening the email itself that it becomes clear that this isn’t an emergency overdue heating bill. It’s Scott’s campaign asking for money.
Here’s a screenshot of the email notification received by this South Carolina resident and provided to HuffPost:
A screenshot of an email notification from Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign.
And here’s a couple screenshots of the email from Scott’s campaign, with the same subject …