Posted on 10/14/2008 9:37:40 AM PDT by tiniyo
Dead people. Fake people. Cartoon characters.
Now, it looks like Obama supporters are going after unsuspecting credit card fraud victims, too. Better check your Visa and Amex bills twice:
A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.
Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they’re not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.
They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.
“(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this,” said Steve Larman. “It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations.”
The Larman’s don’t want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.
“They (Chase) kept on asking me ‘are you sure you wouldnt have gone to a site in support of Obama’,” said Rachel Larman. “And I repeatedly said ‘Im voting for McCain - I would not be going to an Obama site’.”
Chase dropped the charge from the Larman’s card. The couple is thankful thay they caught the charge on the card, but worried that others may not see that type of fraud on their own credit cards before it’s too late.
Oh, they were just pre-paying their tax increase.
“They (Chase) kept on asking me ‘are you sure you wouldnt have gone to a site in support of Obama’,” said Rachel Larman. “And I repeatedly said ‘Im voting for McCain - I would not be going to an Obama site’.”
Sounds like the Chase customer service people REALLY like Obama.
From one man’s pocket to another man’s outstretched palm. It’s the Obama way.
“Criminals for Obama!”
Oh boy, this is getting good.
OBAMA CREDIT CARD FRAUD RING PING! Check your statements....
Hillary’s camp visited credit card accounts without the donor’s permission.
Dem’s cheat, lie, steal, and love murdering domestic and foreign (odina) terrorists.
Bush is still president and the AG is still in power. Why aren’t they fighting this? Why hasn’t Bush been fighting this since 2001? Does he hate McCain that much?
I’m turning red from embarrassment when I even THINK of the expletives that would spew forth from my mouth if this situation happened to me and I was asked that question by the bank csr.
Bump.
Sure they did. It's the downpayment for some house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
My guess would be a restaurant server or someone who has momentary custody of a credit card for a legitimate purpose. The size of the donation is pretty brazen, and suggests someone who might have access to checking a card’s limit during a normal transaction, like a rental car agency, travel agency, hotel, etc.
On a smaller scale, this sort of thing has been going on with credit cards from all over the world.
So long as the donation is for LESS than $200, the donor needs not be identified. In a little switcheroo, a charge is made against a credit card, and the same agency that withdrew the charge, and sent it in under the “donor’s” name, then makes a repayment to the account by a third party, a very wealthy Obama backer, that, because of various restrictions (already at maximum contributions, ineligible because of citizenship requirements, whatever), would not be able to make contributions. Repeat this several thousand times, or hundreds of thousands of times, and you are talking about REAL money. A good many of these credit card accounts may not even be based in the US, and so may never be known in this country.
Sent the Malkin link to Drudge.
Been asking myself the same thing all day. Perhaps since McCain is trying to distance himself from the present administration, such actions might do more harm than good.
Obama’s plan to get the credit crisis cleaned up. :D
Oh, pleeze.
President Bush has been so demonized throughout his administration that if he announced the sky was blue the ‘progressives’ would send out all branches of the MSM to call him a liar.
Remember ‘Selected’ not ‘Elected’ 2000?
If McCain/Palin eeks out a victory they have the same plans for them.
Such is the dumb masses who vote and don’t understand the President proposes, the Congress disposes.
Wtf difference does that make? You go to a site and you automatically forfeit $2300?
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