FBI Investigating Attempts To Impersonate President Trump’s Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles

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This is concerning.

A bad actor is attempting to impersonate President Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

President Trumptly selected Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff shortly after winning the 2024 presidential election.

She formerly served as his senior campaign director.

The move by Trump made Wiles the first woman ever to hold the position.

TRUMP, who Mark Cuban said can’t stand being around “strong, intelligent women,” just named Susie Wiles “the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history.” pic.twitter.com/ONvQyaiQLY

— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) November 7, 2024

Just months into her reign as the chief of staff, she is facing a significant security threat with the FBI’s concern.

The FBI has reported that Wiles’s phone was hacked, and an unknown suspect is impersonating her and reaching out to her contacts.

The Daily Wire broke down the story:

Someone is impersonating President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in texts and phone calls — and the FBI is investigating.

Wiles, who is the first female chief of staff in U.S. history, has revealed contacts were hacked from her personal, not her government, cellphone, The Wall Street Journal reported. Other top officials in the Trump administration were contacted via the fake identity.

“The FBI takes all threats against the president, his staff, and our cybersecurity with the utmost seriousness,” FBI Director Kash Patel stated. “Safeguarding our administration officials’ ability to securely communicate to accomplish the president’s mission is a top priority.”
Government officials believe that artificial intelligence was used in the fake messages.

“It became clear to some of the lawmakers that the requests were suspicious when the impersonator began asking questions about Trump that Wiles should have known the answers to—and in one case, when the impersonator asked for a cash transfer, some of the people said,” the Journal wrote. Another clue leading to suspicion was the broken grammar used by the impersonator.

FBI Probes White House Imposter

One or more unknown people accessed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles' personal cellphone and used her contacts file to reach out to other top officials and impersonate her, sources told CBS News Thursday. pic.twitter.com/8d0q3ie0H1

— America Out Loud News (@OutLoudNews) May 30, 2025

The FBI previously released a service announcment regarding criminals impersonating elected officials and their staffers:

The FBI is issuing this announcement to warn and provide mitigation tips to the public about an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign. Since April 2025, malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials to target individuals, many of whom are current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts. If you receive a message claiming to be from a senior US official, do not assume it is authentic.

The malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages — techniques known as smishing and vishing, respectively — that claim to come from a senior US official in an effort to establish rapport before gaining access to personal accounts. One way the actors gain such access is by sending targeted individuals a malicious link under the guise of transitioning to a separate messaging platform. Access to personal or official accounts operated by US officials could be used to target other government officials, or their associates and contacts, by using trusted contact information they obtain. Contact information acquired through social engineering schemes could also be used to impersonate contacts to elicit information or funds.

“Smishing” is the malicious targeting of individuals using Short Message Service (SMS) or Multimedia Message Service (MMS) text messaging. “Vishing”, which may incorporate AI-generated voices, is the malicious targeting of individuals using voice memos. Both smishing and vishing use tactics similar to spear phishing, which uses email to target specific individuals or groups.

Traditionally, malicious actors have leveraged smishing, vishing, and spear phishing to transition to a secondary messaging platform where the actor may present malware or introduce hyperlinks that direct intended targets to an actor-controlled site that steals log-in information, like user names and passwords. For smishing, malicious actors typically use software to generate phone numbers that are not attributed to a specific mobile phone or subscriber to engage with a target by masquerading as an associate or family member. For vishing, malicious actors are more frequently exploiting AI-generated audio to impersonate well-known, public figures or personal relations to increase the believability of their schemes.

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