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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight-wing sting artist James O'Keefe says hackers scammed his Project Veritas out of $165,000
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/project-of-veritas-says-hackers-scammed-it-out-of-165000/Project Veritas announced on Monday that it was defrauded out of $165,000 after being targeted by hackers.
James OKeefe, the groups founder, said that scammers posing as the groups attorneys were able to convince his team to transfer funds out of their bank account.
So we received an invoice for $165,000 from a few of our attorneys and we intended to pay that invoice so we set up wire transfers for payment, OKeefe says. Within an hour the lawyers reached out to us asking us to pay the invoice via a new account they had set up.
OKeefe further claims that the hackers appeared to be monitoring his correspondence with his actual attorneys before interjecting with a similar-looking email account.
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But that wasnt the only attack Project Veritas claims to have been targeted by. OKeefe goes on to state that his organization had also been hit with Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Specifically, OKeefe says the attackers made numerous $50,000 donations to the company and then requested a refund, which would force Project Veritas to pay processing fees.
The attacks came just days after Project Veritas New York headquarters was flooded by Hurricane Ida.
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Right-wing sting artist James O'Keefe says hackers scammed his Project Veritas out of $165,000 (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Sep 2021
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mortgage process escrow... hackers have intercepted the funds... double checks in place
Demovictory9
Sep 2021
#7
edhopper
(33,575 posts)1. Or
he claims this happened to explain the missing $$$.
questionseverything
(9,654 posts)2. He deserves what he described and much more
He really has never been punished for getting
Acorn defunded
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)3. It's a new thing...
I have a friend who works for a company selling to a State Gov't and the hackers were monitoring the email exchanges and sent an invoice to a fake Wire TX account. Stealing from the Gov't is serious...
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)7. mortgage process escrow... hackers have intercepted the funds... double checks in place
lots of checks in place right at the point you wire funds to establish escrow.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)4. Well-deserved.
calguy
(5,306 posts)5. The 'hacker' was probably O' Keefe himself.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)6. ohhh, shucks that is just terrible...they will have to con more rubes out of money to make that up.
Then again maybe this whole thing is just another pity con. Oh, we were hacked, woe is us.
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)8. too bad in was only 165K.
My hope is they actually got access to his systems and database.
wryter2000
(46,040 posts)9. I guess
God doesn't like people who bear false witness.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)10. Like who gives a flying fuck for him!!! Deserves it!!! n/t
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)11. The checks in the mail. Never trust a con man.
James OKeefe is just another con man on the Republican side of the fence.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,184 posts)12. A scammer got scammed
There is justice in the universe