According to a newly published report by The Observer, Wells Fargo bank's fraud department is "inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges."

The media outlet -- which is owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner -- claims to have interviewed sources exclusively for its report alleging how the Hillary Clinton campaign has been systematically overcharging her "poorest supporters" with campaign donation debits, and that its method for doing so is the same kind bank fraud departments routinely see engaged in by "pornography companies."

According to the Observer, Clinton supporters believed they were making a small, one-time donations directly through the Clinton campaign website, but allegedly found out that their bank accounts were being debited routinely for unauthorized amounts:  

The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation’s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton’s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton’s campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state’s attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.

“We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary’s low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,” a source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of job security, from the Wells Fargo fraud department told the Observer. The source claims that the Clinton campaign has been pulling this stunt since Spring of this year.

The Observer reports that the Clinton campaign overcharges donors by small amounts of say, $20, because it falls below the $100 threshold of what a bank typically considers grounds for fraud investigation: 

​“We don’t investigate fraudulent charges unless they are over $100,” the fraud specialist explained. “The Clinton campaign knows this, that’s why we don’t see any charges over the $100 amount, they’ll stop the charges just below $100. We’ll see her campaign overcharge donors by $20, $40 or $60 but never more than $100.” The source, who has worked for Wells Fargo for over 10 years, said that the total amount they refund customers on a daily basis who have been overcharged by Clinton’s campaign “varies” but the bank usually issues refunds that total between $700 and $1200 per day.

The source interviewed by the Observer also claims that Clinton donors have tried to resolve the overcharges directly with the Clinton campaign but "get nowhere" so they end up going directly to their banks for refunds. The most eyebrow-raising claim the source makes is: 

“We see this same scheme with a lot of seedy porn companies."

Again, given that the report was published by Kushner's media outlet, its veracity should be weighed carefully; however, the site did share a copy of a US Bank statement from an 81-year-old Clinton supporter named Carol Mahre that shows $94 in alleged overcharges by the Clinton campaign. Her son Roger Mahre went on the record with The Observer, stating that he called the Clinton campaign "40 to 50" times before he "finally got ahold of someone." He thought he had resolved the matter, only to find his mother's account ended up being overcharged again. 

The report is extensive  and provides details of others who allege they were subjected to the same kind of overcharges. It can be read in its entirety here. 

According to The Observer, its report documents how the Clinton campaign exploited its lowest-income supporters.