Fraudsters Are Impersonating Your Campaign.
Your Donors Can't Tell the Difference.
CheckTxt detects political smishing scams at the moment they reach your donors — before anyone clicks, donates, or loses trust in your campaign
Political campaigns and PACs are high-value impersonation targets
Fraudsters impersonate your campaign, your candidate, and your PAC to solicit donations from supporters who trust your name. Messages are convincing, urgent, and indistinguishable from legitimate outreach — mimicking your tone, your branding, and your donation flow. By the time a donor realizes something is wrong, the money is gone and the damage to your campaign’s credibility has already spread.
Smishing campaigns targeting your donors operate entirely outside your existing controls
Campaign security tools are built to protect against internal threats — staff, systems, and data. They have no visibility into the messages your donors and supporters receive on their personal phones. No filter inspects them. No alert fires. A coordinated smishing campaign can target thousands of your donors simultaneously and your team won’t know it’s happening until supporters start calling to report it.
What Happens When Smishing Hits a Campaign
When a smishing attack succeeds, the damage is immediate and lasting
Donor trust evaporates. Supporters defrauded by messages impersonating your campaign don’t distinguish between the scam and your organization. The association sticks — and so does the doubt about future communications from your campaign.
Donations are diverted. Fraudulent campaigns using your name and branding redirect contributions meant for your organization to criminal accounts. Your campaign loses funding, and donors lose the money they gave in good faith.
Your FEC compliance is exposed. Smishing campaigns impersonating your PAC or organization create a paper trail of fraudulent solicitations associated with your name — complicating compliance reporting and attracting scrutiny you didn’t invite.
Reputational damage outlasts the attack. Media coverage of a smishing campaign targeting your donors puts your name in the story — regardless of whether your organization was at fault. That coverage doesn’t disappear after the campaign ends.
Each of these outcomes occurs before your team knows an attack is underway.
How CheckTxt Stops Campaign Smishing
Real-Time Protection for Your Campaign, Your PAC, and Your Donors.
See the attack while it's forming
Smishing campaigns targeting political organizations hit thousands of donors at once. CheckTxt correlates submissions across your supporter base, surfacing coordinated attacks while they're still active — giving your team time to issue a campaign-wide advisory before the damage spreads.
The Scale of the Problem
Political Campaigns Are Being Targeted at a Scale Most Organizations Aren’t Prepared For
Threat Metric | Scale | B2B2C Impact |
15 billion political texts sent in 2024 cycle | Overwhelming volume | Voters, donors, supporters targeted |
98% SMS open rate for political messages | High engagement exploitation | Maximum fraud exposure |
$2.3 million average fraud per fake PAC | Diverted from legitimate campaigns | Donors, democracy harmed |
54% increase in political SMS fraud 2024 vs 2022 | Rapidly accelerating threat | All stakeholders vulnerable |
89% of voters unable to verify political SMS authenticity | Widespread vulnerability | Universal citizen exposure |