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.
