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Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced By 3rd-Party Payment System

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-kind-of-3d-party dept.

According to an article in Maine's WMTW Channel 8, some Donald Trump supporters claim they've ended up giving more than they intended to this campaign, because a since-resolved "glitch" (according to campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks) meant they were charged multiple times. From the article: "Heather Nason of Saco told WMTW News 8 that her husband was one of the affected customers. ... Nason said a series of unauthorized charges appeared on her husband's bank statement days later. She said someone tried to make 13 withdrawals from her husband's account. After the first six charges went through, the account was almost empty."

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  1. Donors??? by chris200x9 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Didn't Trump say he could finance his whole campaign himself?

    1. Re: Donors??? by ScentCone · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What do you call someone who knows the truth, but continues to misrepresent it or to say something that is not true?

      A "Clinton"

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    2. Re:Donors??? by unixisc · · Score: 4, Informative

      Didn't Trump say he could finance his whole campaign himself?

      He did. He does allow people to donate to his campaign, but it requires them to provide a written declaration of 2 things:

      1. 1. The person must make the contribution from their own funds, and not any organization that they are a part of (to avoid a situation where Trump is expected to do a quid pro quo)
      2. 2. That person couldn't have been an illegal alien at any point in his life

      In short, people who wish to contribute to his campaign can do it, as long as they follow the above requirements. But it doesn't mean that Trump wouldn't finance his entire campaign

    3. Re:Donors??? by dbIII · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If you can spend other people's money instead of your own, it's obvious which is the way to go in business.

      Especially since he's famous for doing that four times over.
      Funny how he told the people he had fleeced that he had no money and then he suddenly had millions five minutes after the clock ran out - four times.

    4. Re:Donors??? by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

      He is financing it himself. He's just using other people's money. Nothing at all like his business record, no no no.

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    5. Re:Donors??? by Barsteward · · Score: 2

      seems like a good scam i mean business move, donations replace the money he spends so if he loses the campaign, his pockets are still full

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  2. Don't worry by quantaman · · Score: 2

    He'll just use his management superpowers to make all the over-charged donors multi-millionaires.

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  3. Classic Spammer/Scammer tactic by Sarusa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You go after people you know are stupid.

    1. Re:Classic Spammer/Scammer tactic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, it's just an ordinary payment processor glitch that got turned into a media thing due to it happening to the Trump campaign. Similar things have happened to tons and tons of payment platforms enough such that this is hardly a noteworthy affair any more than someone's Windows PC crashing would be.

      Please note that, like most sane people, I have zero intention of voting for Trump. But this story is utter BS concocted by someone trying to score political points and it sounds foolish to anyone who knows how payment processors actually work.

  4. So... by mcmonkey · · Score: 2

    This in addition to getting fleeced by Trump.

  5. prophetic by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i dont see what these people are upset about. i mean, this is just a vision of your future if trump were to be President. ;)

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  6. Only six? by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 3

    She said someone tried to make 13 withdrawals from her husband's account. After the first six charges went through, the account was almost empty.

    That's because her husband is a loser, and doesn't have many billions of dollars from doing very well in his many business deals.

    1. Re: Only six? by shitzu · · Score: 2

      Strange. Does the american banking system allow you to "charge" another person's bank account without any sayso of the user? Where i live, this is impossible. The only way money goes away from my bank account by a request from third party, is direct debit - and even then I set the withdrawal limits and dates and there has to be an electronic (i.e. XML) invoice produced. Also - i don't think direct debit is ever used for one off payments here, only recurring payments like utility, phone, etc.

  7. A totally uninteresting article by nickweller · · Score: 2

    Why is this even doing on slashdot?

  8. Ob by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't that be "Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced Again By 3d-Party Payment System"

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  9. Re:Why is Trump not in prison? by Barsteward · · Score: 3, Funny

    he isn't white... he's orange

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  10. poetic justice by Spaham · · Score: 2

    A fool and his money will soon be parted

  11. Re:Muzzie Obama by unixisc · · Score: 2

    It's not illegal, but the point people are making is that the questioner in Trump's town hall meeting made a false claim. Debatable one, maybe, but certainly not downright false.