Grift alert: Scammers register fake Donald Trump legal defense fund with federal regulators
Unless Donald Trump’s legal defense fund is being run out of an apartment in Wheaton, Ill., and its email address carries the extension “opayq.com,” scammers are on the hunt to punk loyal supporters of the former president.
On Monday morning, a day after the New York Times reported that Trump was creating a legal defense fund to cover the bills of witnesses and defendants, a person (or people) filed separate paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to create the “Donald Trump Legal Defense Fund”.
Other hallmarks of it being a scam? The listed custodian of records and treasurer for the Donald Trump Legal Defense Fund gave an address in Downers Grove, Ill., that tracks back to a building that houses a “workspace and social lounge designed for suburban professionals”....