Presidential Election Spawns Donation Scams
Some voters are receiving fraudulent requests for donations from scammers posing as reps of presidential campaigns.
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The presidential primary season is officially underway following the caucuses in Iowa.
Most of the major candidates have been campaigning, and asking for political donations, for around a year now.
But some of those requests for campaign funding…are not coming from campaigns.
Instead it’s a prime chance for internet scammers to fraudulently seek money.
WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter talked about how to discern what might and might not be a political scam with a man in the center of the current nexus of presidential politics, the Better Business Bureau Serving Greater Iowa’s Ryan Smith.