Chicago Woman's Picture Used In Fake Clinton Campaign Tweet

(CBS) – A Chicago woman at the center of a fake Hillary Clinton campaign tweet telling voters to text their vote is pushing back.

She's angry and determined to get the right message to voters.

CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.

Deborah Williams, a West Side community leader and longtime political activist, says it is her face on what looks like a Clinton campaign ad encouraging voters to "avoid the line" and vote from home.

"I think it's offensive and bogus and that's nothing I would every say," she said Monday.

In fact, the ad is a fake. It first appeared on Twitter. The creator's account was eventually removed, but only after the national media reported on the campaign scam, making Williams a top search on Google.

Williams says she has no idea who's behind the scam or where they got her picture, but given her public support of Clinton on social media and her work on the campaign trail she thinks the motive is obvious.

Friends are convinced using Williams' face was no accident.

Williams said she spoke out Monday so that voters know: "You cannot vote by text … You have to go out and vote."

Before the fake ad was discovered it had been retweeted nearly 4,000 times.

For those who texted the number, according to published reports, they got a reply saying the ad was a fake.