AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - DNC fell for email scam, lost nearly $29,000 to fraudster posing as Chairman Ken Martin
The Democratic National Committee wired nearly $29,000 to an email scammer pretending to be its own chairman, a loss that surfaced in federal records as the party already struggles under crushing debt and mounting calls for new leadership. A DNC staffer sent $28,860.92 to an unknown fraudster who impersonated newly installed Chairman Ken Martin via […] The post DNC fell for email scam, lost nearly $29,000 to fraudster posing as Chairman Ken Martin appeared first on American Almanac .
The Democratic National Committee wired nearly $29,000 to an email scammer pretending to be its own chairman, a loss that surfaced in federal records as the party already struggles under crushing debt and mounting calls for new leadership. A DNC staffer sent $28,860.92 to an unknown fraudster who impersonated newly installed Chairman Ken Martin via email in February 2025, just weeks after Martin took over the party apparatus. The committee caught the error "within minutes," Breitbart News reported , citing federal records and party official interviews first published by NOTUS. The DNC reported the incident to its bank, Wells Fargo, and recovered $7,000, leaving the party short more than $21,000 from a single phishing email. The staffer…Open