A grad student in need of a new laptop lost a thousand dollars in a fake Twitter promotion.
MASN Reporter Roch Kubatko is in the business of covering the Orioles, not selling laptops, but for a few days, his Twitter feed had multiple posts about a laptop giveaway for charity. One of his followers, Tim Utzig, believed the posts were real.
“I met him in a sports journalism class at Towson University while I was an undergrad there. He came and spoke to my class and ever since then, I follow him avidly. I’ve been a big Orioles fan for a very, very long time,” said Tim Utzig.
Utzig is unable to watch the games. He’s a blind member of the community, so he listens to the games and follows along with Kubatko’s tweets. And recently, a tweet from Kubatko’s account prompted Utzig to send him a message.
“It was kind of too good to be true, the timing. I need a MacBook for graduate school,” said Utzig. “It was a discounted price, $1,000 is what I sent for a 2023 MacBook Pro, and the proceeds wo...
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