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Donald Trump GoFundMe raises $84K of $355 million target in 24 hours
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Man, i want some of that sweet rube money.
If hypothetically, i created a gofundme that said something along the lines of 'help support me support trump' and it had a bunch of weasel words that sounded supportive of him but just boiled down to me using the money to pay my bills while thinking about supportive scaffolding, would that be illegal?
Plenty of dudes have already beaten you to the punch. They blast people with texts that all go to fake donor sites like winred.com that then beg you to make $3,300 donations.
Hell, winred.com is just as much the same scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOrTvPdFwQ
Winred still operates.
Doesn't mean you can't make more.
With $15 (for domain and hosting), you too can funnel money from MAGA with a donation site to "help"!
I wonder if you could astro turf the hell out of this. Go deeper. Make it fun!
Make a fake identity for your company's parent company that parodies this guy https://gerritlansing.org/about-2/. Hire an actor on fiver to be red white and blue all over, set up your secret island bank accounts in the Seychelles and then go full Kojima mode lalilulelo, metal gear?! nanomachies?! etc etc.
It could be self funding ARG that protects its "fraud" as an artistic work. Qanons would eat it up.
Mannnn 'course it's already a thing....
Thanks for the info
I think winred has inserted themselves into the RepubliQan donation scam, too. I think campaigns are required to use them.
Reminds me of when the PS3 first went on sale and people sold pictures of a PS3 on eBay. The title said it was a picture, the content said it was a picture, but people were impatient, didn't read and bought the auctions. I thought that was a bit manipulative then, but I would not feel bad if people did this to Trump supporters. IANAL but I don't think it's illegal as long as you don't say you'll do something and then not do it.