Scammers impersonating the President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance Inaugural Committee fraudulently stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a new complaint filed by federal prosecutors.
The perpetrators used phony email addresses made to look like they belonged to the inaugural committee to " trick or coerce victims into providing them money," according to the civil complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Using email addresses that end in "@t47lnaugural.com" with a lowercase "l" as opposed to "@t47inaugural.com" with a lowercase "i," the scammers duped victims into sending them more than 250,300 in USDT stablecoin, or about $250,300.
Court Watch first reported the filing Thursday.
The emails sent in December claimed to be from Steve Witkoff, then the co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.