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Obama’s Credit Card Scheme Gets Noticed
Newsmax ^ | Monday, October 27

Posted on 10/27/2008 10:32:09 PM PDT by seastay

Apparently bloggers have been using clearly phony names and addresses on Obama’s online and credit card page – and finding that Obama turned off all the credit card security features. Most merchants will bounce back a credit card order if the card number doesn’t match the cardholder’s name, address, zip code and other personal information.

But Obama’s campaign doesn’t care and turned the software off.

Now, evidence continues to mount that Obama’s campaign allowed donors to engage in massive fraud by allowing individuals to use a single credit card to make multiple donations – keeping their individual donations below the $200 threshold and never revealed to the public.

The Obama campaign still won’t reveal the names and addresses of its donors who gave under $200 – even though Obama says they donated more than $200 million to his campaign.

Johnson reports that intrepid citizen investigators tested the system by donating sums using phony names – but their actual credit card numbers

Obama’s campaign has “chosen to operate an online contribution system that facilitates illegal falsely sourced contributions, illegal foreign contributions and the evasion of contribution limits,” Johnson concludes.

The result of all of this is the largest fundraising machine in U.S. political history, according to experts, one that not only dwarfs all previous political spending but also rivals the annual advertising budgets of companies like Apple, Coca-Cola and Microsoft. Obama’s campaign has raised more than $600 million – $150 million in September alone

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1 posted on 10/27/2008 10:32:09 PM PDT by seastay
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To: seastay

This can run in NewsMax all day, every day, and the MSM will never pick it up.


2 posted on 10/27/2008 10:33:53 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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Hopefully new rules will be adopted before the next election.


3 posted on 10/27/2008 10:35:39 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: CE2949BB

Crooked Barack Hussein and David Axelrod need to be arrested for fraud this time. Criminals need to go to Jail. Obama, Howard Dean and the Daley machine no how to be dishonest.


4 posted on 10/27/2008 10:39:52 PM PDT by ncfool (ObaBama stands for The New United Socialist State or "TNUSSA")
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To: CE2949BB
Hopefully new rules will be adopted before the next election.

Not if NObama gets elected.

5 posted on 10/27/2008 10:41:52 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Per 0 & Murtha I'm a redneck clinging to God & guns since I'm originally from a small town in W. Pa.)
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To: seastay
Apparently bloggers have been using clearly phony names and addresses on Obama’s online and credit card page – and finding that Obama turned off all the credit card security features. Most merchants will bounce back a credit card order if the card number doesn’t match the cardholder’s name, address, zip code and other personal information.

But Obama’s campaign doesn’t care and turned the software off.

So much for PCI regulations helping out the industry.

6 posted on 10/27/2008 10:44:23 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: CE2949BB

McCain tried to revamp the rules with his camping financing law, and now he is being held hostage by his own good intentions. The press give him no praise for playing by the rules, in fact they routinely make fun of the Republicans because they can’t keep up with the Democrats funds. In the meantime they mock Sarah for spending money on clothes, but turn a blind eye for Obama’s 2 million dollar election night party, and using donor funds to fly a charter jet flight to Hawaii, while standing on a platform saying he is going to tax us if we drive to work in a our green house gas spewing SUVs.


7 posted on 10/27/2008 10:45:06 PM PDT by seastay
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To: CE2949BB

Yep, McCain can go back to the Senate and sponsor Reform of Campaign Finance Reform, Part Two. Next time ‘round, I’m sure we’ll cure all the problems of money in elections.


8 posted on 10/27/2008 10:46:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: seastay
Selling online I can tell you that Obama has done this purposefully. We have safeguards to tell us that a charge might be fraudulent in order to protect our customers and us.

The Obama method would allow any employee of a restaurant or anywhere you might use your credit or debit card to extract a charge you might not approve. Usually such charges are small in order not to draw notice. We cannot let this guy be voted in.

9 posted on 10/27/2008 10:57:05 PM PDT by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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To: seastay

Be careful who you give your credit card to when it goes out of sight, say, at a restaurant. They copy your number, use it at the Obama website, and you will have made a donation. So, besides laundering money, the use of stolen numbers slips thru too.


10 posted on 10/27/2008 11:00:44 PM PDT by papersonusa
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To: CE2949BB
"Hopefully new rules will be adopted before the next election.

What next election?

I really hate to join the panicky crowd that believe that if 0bama gets elected, that will be the end of free elections, but after the benign mask of 0bama slipped again today, I'm getting nearly paranoid enough to wear a tin foil cap, at least until I'm safe inside my bunker.
(I'm not quite sure if I'm joking about that or not)

“The press has no right to ask questions” (of 0bama or Biden) according to high 0bama spokesman Michael Brown:
Video

And 0bama, himself has said:
..."the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties
and
"we’ll finally be able to break free of the constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck"

11 posted on 10/27/2008 11:01:38 PM PDT by LegendHasIt (Common Sense '08 ......... OOPS! too late.)
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12 posted on 10/27/2008 11:01:52 PM PDT by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: CE2949BB
Hopefully new rules will be adopted before the next election.

"...but they will only apply to Republican "election thieves".

13 posted on 10/28/2008 12:11:27 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: seastay

I was looking for the big paper that I thought had brought up the credit card fraud on Obama’s website and found two slightly related articles that might interest some.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign using the staff’s credit cards at http://wonkette.com/365959/hillary-campaign-commits-credit-card-fraud-against-delightful-lady

And a young man with Obama’s name on his Amex account at http://www.zug.com/pranks/obama-credit-card/index03.html


14 posted on 10/28/2008 12:31:21 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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   200 million in contributions under $200? That would mean 4 million Americans making $50 donations or slightly more than 1 million Americans making $199.99 donations each. Wow! It's either massive fraud or Obama is lying when he talks about a bad economy. I'd like to see the list of donors.

   I'd also like to see his college records, birth certificate, the passport he used to go to Pakistan, the notes he gave to Bill Ayers when he asked him to write his autobiography, the law records detailing the work he did for Tony Rezko, his medical records, his Columbia thesis paper, Selective Service registration, Illinois State Senate records, and his law practice client list. That should do it.
15 posted on 10/28/2008 2:20:34 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: seastay

It may be very interesting to cross check these card numbers with reports of identity theft. This may be a conspiracy to defraud on a massive scale.


16 posted on 10/28/2008 4:04:29 AM PDT by cdpap
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