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Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:16 AM Sep 2012

Just your typical republican, using fake web sites to scam donations...

For anyone who sent money to the website listed as DemocraticNationalCommittee.org, that money did not go to the Democrats.

Nor did any money sent to RepublicanNationalCommittee.org go to the Republicans.

An ABC News investigation found the websites, which feature official-looking graphics and photographs of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, are run out of a single-family home in South Hadley, Massachusetts by Donald Peltier, 50, a fuel truck delivery man by day and an apparent internet sleight-of-hand artist by night.

The results of the investigation will be seen tonight on "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer."

Peltier is listed as a registered Republican, according to election records, and a yard sign for the campaign of Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown is posted in Peltier's front yard, but both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee say his look-alike websites are not legitimate.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/gop-dem-donors-misled-alike-websites/story?id=17228155

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Just your typical republican, using fake web sites to scam donations... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2012 OP
Another Republican scam artist.... rfranklin Sep 2012 #1
hmmmmm - a sc00t br0wn republican geckosfeet Sep 2012 #2
du rec for this! BlueToTheBone Sep 2012 #3
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