$5,000 “DOGE Checks" Scam Revealed!
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Morning Shots - A Gross and Brazen ‘DOGE Check’ Scam
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business, serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
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| 0:24.6 | Shot, who has a doozy of a morning shot this morning. We can call it a Morning Shot, |
| 0:28.0 | shot in the morning. It's about scam packs, specifically one scam pack, which is kind of my |
| 0:33.8 | thing. I love writing about scampax, reading about scam packs. We're going to get |
| 0:37.8 | into it before we do. Subscribe to the feed. All right, Andrew, tell us about this scam pack that |
| 0:44.6 | you uncovered and what exactly is so scammy about it. So this is, for people who aren't kind of in the |
| 0:50.7 | know, the whole idea of a scam pack is they're bringing in money. |
| 0:58.0 | They are saying they're going to use it to, you know, fight political battles. And they're mostly just spending it on operating the pack, which is basically giving |
| 1:02.2 | themselves kickbacks, treating themselves to various sort of luxury, you know, niceties, |
| 1:07.1 | goodies, different things, not actually fighting the political fight that they're |
| 1:11.1 | saying they're going to do. So parties kind of hate them because they take money away from |
| 1:14.9 | what would otherwise be, you know, actual party activities. Voters tend to hate them as well because |
| 1:20.5 | they are scams. The one today, though, is kind of remarkably shameless, like even among the |
| 1:27.1 | scam packs. I mean, I don't know how you felt about it, Sam. You've spent more time kind of remarkably shameless like even among the scam packs i mean i don't know how you felt |
| 1:28.5 | about it sam i you you you've spent more time kind of just like uh getting a thick skin to these things |
| 1:33.7 | but let me just read you a little bit about sure here's here's the text message from this from this group |
| 1:38.9 | you earned that five thousand dollar doge check say yes before it's gone well that's interesting |
| 1:44.0 | there are no five thousand dollar dose checks that's not. Well, that's interesting. There are no $5,000 |
| 1:44.9 | dose checks. That's not a real thing. Let's find out more. You click through the link. Doge saved |
| 1:50.2 | you $1 trillion, and you said no. Our records show you may have said no to your Trump savings |
| 1:55.6 | check. This can't be right. This isn't a handout. It's your hard-earned money that corrupt |
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