A new website has been launched to allow people to see if their names and identities have been fraudulently used to make hard-to-trace political donations to Democratic candidates. The using of people as “mules” for campaign money is often referred to as “smurfing.”
The CheckMyDonation.org website was launched after questions were raised about ActBlue, a donation processing website used exclusively by Democrats and their chosen causes. ActBlue has been associated with fraudulent identity theft. Names of people, particularly the elderly on a fixed income, appear to be being used to launder donated funds from unknown sources — possibly from foreign donors.
Rep. Mary Peltola’s campaign has been caught up in the scandal and is listed in a complaint filed by the attorney general of Texas as an example of identity theft. See this story:
“There’s now more evidence that illicit overseas donors are using the corrupt Democrat donor platform ActBlue to exploit campaign finance loopholes and make donations in the names of people without their knowledge,” wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X/Twitter.
CheckMyDonation.org is run by QuantumRed, a company hired by the U.S. House of Representatives under Johnson to help investigate donor identity fraud. QuantumRed is not under contract to run this page. It does so as a free public service to assist law enforcement.
“Law enforcement is investigating a new form of identity theft called ‘straw donors’ or ‘smurfing,’ in which fraudsters use the identities of innocent victims to make political contributions to candidates. CheckMyDonation.org is a free public service to identify potential victims,” the website says.
Using it is simple: You simply enter your own name or the name of someone whose donations to federal campaigns are of interest to you, and the information populates instantly and will list donations made under that name to federal candidates, regardless of party, and whether that donation was made via ActBlue or the Republican site, WinRed.
Oh yeah. I will occasionally give a few dollars to winred, but never actblue but I see someone has used my named to donate. Make no mistake there is only one of me in my neck of the woods. Those crooked bastards.
I get e-mails from Act Blue all the time, and the name in them is not mine. But, that name sure seems to donate a LOT to the democrats. Several hundred donations, all in the sub-$100 range.
Suspicious? Yeah.
Well the number of times an unemployed person, an actor, or a lawyer with my same name as the ones I searched or with a slightly different spelling was on the list was interesting. Also the number of times these names donated a single dollar, a small dollar amount, or a weird dollar amount like $1.07 multiple times per day is suspect at best. While the multiple small dollar amounts gives the politicians a talking point about getting lots of small dollar donations, when those donations are fraudulent so is their talking point.
I have never made a political contribution.
The photo of a deep state tool like Johnson does not assist in the framing of this article. Hopefully he loses the speakership to an America first, can do candidate who does not genuflect on the alter of the MIC.
ActBlue is the same as always, if you were suckered into donating to BLM movement, you had to authorize ActBlue to use your donation anyway they deemed fit. Think about that, any donation they could channel to their desire.