Scam Alert: Donald Trump's Website Won't Let You Cancel Recurring Donations

[Nevilledog]

Last edited Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:24 PM - Edit history (1)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/donald-trumps-website-wont-let-you-cancel-recurring-donations.html

Just like his Trump University, his investments in Atlantic City, his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and basically his entire presidential campaign, it turns out that Donald Trump’s campaign website looks like just another scam.

On Wednesday, CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond sent out this tweet noting that a supporter of Trump had emailed him to say that he couldn’t cancel his recurring contribution on Trump’s official campaign site.

Link to tweet

On Thursday, Mic confirmed that, no, there is no button to undo your recurring payment to the Trump campaign. You can’t delete the recurring payment. You can’t even delete your credit card information (you can update it, but it has to be with a different valid card number). So you just keep paying Trump’s campaign, we suppose, until the end of time.

Federal Election Commission spokesperson Christian Hilland told Mic that there’s nothing illegal about this per se, that is until a person’s automatic payments put her over the maximum contribution limit of $2,700.

*snip*



This is what happens when you sleepy post...... Saw the August, missed the 2016. I'd bet dollars to donuts they're still doing this or something like it. Or maybe they're just continuing to send out those Mafia-esque texts and emails.

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R for exposure

That scoundrel... But then would you expect anything less?

[RockRaven]

2. Womp fucking womp

[blogslut]

3. Initiate a chargeback

[Bev54]

4. Best thing is to cancel that credit card and ask for

a replacement with a new number.

[Layzeebeaver]

18. This is the most effective approach.

The other approach is to not donate to his campaign in the first place.

[Bev54]

24. Yes that kind of floored me too.

[brewens]

5. If they gave him a dime, I hope they soak them for the whole $2700. They have it coming

to them. I suppose it's simple enough to call your bank or credit union to block those though.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I doubt many here are going to have that particular problem, but if anyone does, talk to...

your bank or CC company.

[mr_lebowski]

7. For sure your bank would stop payment but they probably make you file a fraud report ...

Thus invalidating your card, which is a PITA if you use yours for bill paying and ordering things online.

Anyways, totally unsurprising Needy Amin would be running a scam like this. Everything about the man is a con and a scam.

[Celerity]

16. Needy Amin

[Dan]

8. Contact your Credit Card company, and instruct them to not process

Any further transactions from that account. And if you can, tell me that charges made from that site (from a particular date) were not valid.

[BigmanPigman]

11. That seems like it would work.

I wonder if they tried it.

[SergeStorms]

9. When you promise fealty to Donald Trump...

it's a life sentence. There's no backing out or changing your mind. The only way out is death. It's a gangland thing, you see.

[Kablooie]

10. So,what's wrong wit that?

If you're going to jump into Trumps shit pit, why complain when you have to eat shit?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Close the credit card, for cryin' out loud!

That's criminal from Trump's campaign, but there's some ways around it!

[SunSeeker]

13. K & R for exposure.

[brachism]

14. Article is from 4 years ago (Aug 05, 2016)

FYI, source article is dated Aug 05, 2016

[Mike Niendorff]

15. This is from 2016.

4 year old article.

Still with reading, but this is not from the current election cycle.


MDN

[dchill]

17. And they expected what?

[HAB911]

19. thoughts and prayers

[Ms. Toad]

20. Have you checked to make sure this is currently the case?

This article is from his 2020 campaign against Clinton.

[ananda]

21. Then you have to de-activate your CC and get a new one.

!@#$%

[LisaL]

22. Yes, cancelling your credit card seems to be the only way to fix a situation like that.

[Ms. Toad]

23. I hope they figured that out sometime in the last 4 years. N/t