Political Campaign Donators are Being Scammed


	Political Campaign Donators are Being Scammed

Jdfodio

10-10-2007 3:06 AM

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politics, security

Jdfodio says:

Being an avid contributor to political campaigns, I find this to be quite scary!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8d55f329-8185-48cb-95ad-5e33c3650d83/9075D099-0C45-4D93-ADB0-0E9EE039AD1F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/online-campaign.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/online-campaign.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/online-campaign.html">The growing volumes of money that the presidential campaigns are soliciting -- and receiving -- online are likely to prick up the ears of fraudsters sensing a great opportunity to cut in and divert passionate online politicos' financial support to their own pockets, says Christopher  Soghoian</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/online-campaign.html">The public last heard from Soghoian when he created a web <A href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/72023">site</A> to generate fake Northwest Airline boarding passes to illustrate how insecure the nation's aviation policies are</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/online-campaign.html">Fraudsters could easily send out e-mails and establish Web sites
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e-mails that would encourage  people to  "donate" money without 
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