GM's Dayna Hart Becomes Spokesperson For Weight Loss Product

by Bertel Schmitt

Published: May 14th, 2012

gm s dayna hart becomes spokesperson for weight loss product

Dayna Hart, GM China’s Director of Communications, and resident of Shanghai, has been shanghaied as a spokesperson for an amazing new weight loss product on Twitter.

Dayna also has been seen sending out tweets to other people telling them “Hey this user is saying very bad things about you …”, followed by an URL that purports to be leading to the alleged on-line defamation.

Apparently, Dayna became the victim of a common Twitter scam: Click on the link in “Hey this user is saying very bad things about you …” (and who does not want to know who’s saying bad things about us ?) and you land on tvivviter.com instead on twitter.com. The site asks you for your login info, you give it – and your Twitter account has been turned into an instant spam machine. If that happens to you, follow these instructions. If you just see the message, don’t click on the link.

People saying bad things about me? Come on, Dayna, what else is new?

#BertelSchmitt #DaynaHart #GM #Twitter

Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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Volt 230 on May 14, 2012

Perhaps she should encourage GM to put their vehicles on a weigh reduction plan as well!

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Daveainchina on May 14, 2012

how sad and funny that someone who should know better clicks on an obvious phishing scam. Over 90% of security intrusions are because people like her are either ignorant, stupid, or careless. I don't really care which one she is, the point being is that a director of communications should know better and if they do fall for this, maybe someone needs to re-evaluate her performance on the job and probably look for someone else. Especially since she is in China and China is ground zero for corporate espionage. This is should be unacceptable behavior for someone like her.

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