Trump PAC Data Breach Yields Cornucopia for Widows of Nigerian Oil Ministers
“Why flood tens of millions of email boxes with reality-free promises of unearned wealth when you can buy a smaller list pre-selected for gullibility?” asks fraudster spokesman.
A recent alleged data breach at Donald Trump’s leading political action committee has generated a dream list – for other perpetrators of mass swindles – of the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 668,000 individuals who had made donations to Save America PAC.
A virtual bidding war ensued amongst fraudsters, with the purported widows of Nigerian oil ministers edging out mock IRS agents, fake lottery winner announcers, and friends-in-need crooks for first dibs on the valued list.
Scamiverse expert Jonathan Trustme believed the porous line between Trump’s fraudulent political operations and his fraudulent business operations represented a sort of warranty that his donor list would be useful for any kind of racket. But the core value proposition was the quality of the list.
“Usually we must send millions of emails – promising that individuals with no experience whatever in business or immigration law would receive ten million dollars for ‘assisting’ the survivors of murdered Nigerian oil ministers – in order to find the handful trusting enough to be fleeced by someone they’d never heard of before.
“But in Trump contributors, we find a pre-selected list of individuals of incomparable, tested gullibility. Trump’s sucker-to-email ratio can’t be beat!”
The fact that the Save America PAC was begun only after Trump lost the 2020 election is seen in schemer circles as validation of his donors’ inability to stop and think.
“These are people who swallowed whole the Trumpian hoax that the election had been stolen, even though more than 60 judges – including many Trump had appointed himself – found no fraud, and even though serious election fraud had been ruled out by Trump’s own Attorney General and Trump White House officials. They’re really special,” crowed the CFO of Nigerian Widows ‘R’ Us.
The out-bid friends-in-need scammers (who specialize in emails purporting to be from a nephew or grandchild in urgent need after their wallet was stolen in a foreign land) felt the list would have been particularly helpful to them. “After all, these are folks generous enough to pay the legal bills of a ‘needy’ multi-billionaire!”
One reported downside of the list is that so many of the gullibles have little wealth: Sixty percent of Save America donors were retirees in 2022. “Still, many have small retirement accounts,” commented a ‘widow,’ “and they don’t seem to notice when Republicans come after their Social Security.”
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