A pro-MAGA website that urged supporters to fund a database unmasking Charlie Kirk critics took tens of thousands in crypto—then vanished, infuriating donors.

The site, Expose Charlie’s Murderers, launched hours after the assassination of the right-wing influencer, 31, in September. It promised a searchable trove of names and workplaces for “the largest firing operation in history,” according to Drop Site’s review of the now-offline project.

The site listed six crypto wallets and raised more than $30,000 between Sept. 12 and 14 before repeatedly going dark, resurfacing as the “Charlie Kirk Data Foundation,” and disappearing again, Drop Site reported.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      When you control the media, you have an endless amounts of ignorant or gullible people to swindle.

      You tell 300 million people that a man is a gang member, a criminal, a terrible person and they are the cause of the problems around you. They are the reason you see murders on the news everyday.

      You don’t need evidence, you just say it. Then Noem says it, then some random racist cherry picks incidents to show as evidence. Fox focuses all their interviews around pointing blame at them without usually actually saying it directly. Newsmax repeats it. CBS, NBC, CNN all call them alleged criminals.

      So 300 million people keep hearing and seeing it and some start to repeat it. Still without any actual evidence. And you are giving people an easy way out. My problems aren’t my own, the people who are around me are struggling because *checks notes… the people who were causing less crime, oops can’t say that. The people who are different than me, are causing it. Some of them even have their own cultures or languages that I don’t understand! It must be their fault. It wasn’t like this when people grew up in (pulls out rose tinted glasses and makes excuses for everything bad that happened during those times).

      Life only gets worse as wealth becomes scarce. Wealth becomes scarce for the majority when it gets hoarded by the few.

      Why did life appear to get better for a number of years, what was the great depression, maybe charts like these show something…

      It should be 90% of the population voting to spread the wealth. Yet with the media controlled by the wealthy, we are easier to manipulate

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      I wanna make a site that promises the same shit, then let people donate a bunch collect all their info, then accidentally leak everything, showing who these fascist are that donate to shit like this.

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        Don’t sell the data. Make a site and grift. Shut down that site, create another grifting site and directly contact people who already gave you money. No need to cold call.

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          This is why one of the most valuable things scammers have are lists of people who have fallen for their scams. Getting out of the business? Sell it. Need more money? Do another run

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        I mean you could but I doubt anyone would care enough to have any meaningful impact on these peoples lives. Idk maybe I’m wrong.

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          Not in this administration, but hopefully the next will lock up the more egregious offenders and this could just be one more nail in their figurative coffin.

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        Something like this has happened like 20 times that im aware of since the whole maga bullshit started. I’m beginning to think no idea is too stupid to work.

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      I’ve been saying for years that with my skillset, I could easily be a millionaire if my pesky ethics didn’t get in the way.

      And instead, here I am, every month, deciding cat food is more important than my own food.

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        Hey, on the chance you aren’t joking, most food banks I’m familiar with serve everyone, no questions. Well they might ask how many in your household to make sure to give you enough food.

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      Like those 4patriots over priced survival kits and power stations. Ha ha. What a ripoff.

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    Wait – a right-wing org used their ideology to fleece people?!?

    I am shocked.

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    Fuck, most normal Americans who are presented with things that Kirk has actually said would be “critics”.

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    You all know about the Salem witch trials right. ? (This is relevant, I promise).

    So I always figured if I had been accused of witch craft, firstly I would admit it immediately, cause they would just torture me until I did, so may as well spare myself having my fingernails pulled off or whatever it is they would do.

    But I figured I’d take down as many as I could.

    First I’d give them this grand salacious spicy story of doing it with the devil in the woods. First I’d mention one of the other gals who has already been convicted of being a witch (to give me some credibility). She was definitely there.

    But then… I’d start mentioning some other women.

    Wives. Daughters. Of the clergy. The women who were pushing for my arrest. I’d say we had a Satan orgy.

    Might throw in some details about her nipples or pubic hair that would likely be true. But purely a guess. Just to prove I had seen her naked.

    If I knew of any birth marks or something I’d def use that.

    As my story grew I would add more and more names. The story would be so suspenseful. So much detail. It would have to be true.

    And that’s how I’d take the whole lot of them down with me.

    Why do I share this historic revenge fantasy with you all.?

    Why because we could apply it to any modern situation with the gop crackdown on dissenters and antifa.

    They want to come after us. Interrogate us.

    Give them likely credible accomplices who are already flagged. But then start leaking in their own.

    Causing suspicion. Causing doubt. Paranoia.

    Take them all down with you.

    Admit you were doing whatever they accused you of. But insist you have accomplices from their side. Have somethinh prepared a head of time to look credible. Like dates they were in specific locations and such.

    I feel like I have to explain myself a bit because this all sounds rather dark.

    -Im actually a really friendly pleasant person most of the time. but I have a very strong aversion to injustice (especially to vulnerable people,) and I typically support vigilantes (when the system fails them).

    Idk. When I was a kid learning about the Salem witch trials and Anne Frank. I thought. What could these women had done differently to at least take the bad guys out on their way out?

    If I recall. Part of the reason the witch hunting stopped was because women would do as I suggested. They started naming high ranking women as collaborators and even some of the men.

    Start a website. Name obvious leftest who are anti Kirk.

    But then start leaking in their own members.

    Definitely ask for donations.

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    This is an outrage, and shady as fuck, and these scammers need to be hunted down to face justice.

    If you’re a MAGA faithful who has been ripped off by these charlatans, I have some sophisticated tracking software that uses quantum AI to uncover scam tracks. Just send me a private message with your credit card number, expiry date, and the three numbers on the back, and I will take care of things.