Right-wing sting artist James O'Keefe says hackers scammed his Project Veritas out of $165,000

[Demovictory9]

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 O’Keefe, the group’s founder, said that scammers posing as the group’s 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,” O’Keefe says. “Within an hour the lawyers reached out to us asking us to pay the invoice via a new account they had set up.”

O’Keefe 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 wasn’t the only attack Project Veritas claims to have been targeted by. O’Keefe goes on to state that his organization had also been hit with Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Specifically, O’Keefe 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.

[edhopper]

1. Or

he claims this happened to explain the missing $$$.

[questionseverything]

2. He deserves what he described and much more

He really has never been punished for getting

Acorn defunded

[WarGamer]

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]

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]

4. Well-deserved.

[calguy]

5. The 'hacker' was probably O' Keefe himself.

[Thomas Hurt]

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]

8. too bad in was only 165K.

My hope is they actually got access to his systems and database.

[wryter2000]

9. I guess

God doesn't like people who bear false witness.

[RKP5637]

10. Like who gives a flying fuck for him!!! Deserves it!!! n/t

[UCmeNdc]

11. The checks in the mail. Never trust a con man.

James O’Keefe is just another con man on the Republican side of the fence.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. A scammer got scammed

There is justice in the universe