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Messiah's Credit Card Scam
SteynOnline ^ | 10/24/08 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/24/2008 4:18:50 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard

Della's street [Mark Steyn]

I mentioned earlier that "Della Ware" of "12345 No Way" had managed to make a campaign donation to the fraud-friendly Obama website but not to the McCain site, and that the Obama money was whisked out of her account and into Barack's swollen coffers moments later. "Della" - real name Erika - emailed The New York Times and managed to persuade them to cover the story, if only on their blog. We'll see if the news is fit to print tomorrow morning. The headline is unusually robust - "Obama's Online Site Accepts More Fakes" - although the story continues:

To be fair to the Obama campaign, officials there have said much of their checking for fraud occurs after the transactions have already occurred. When they find something wrong, they then refund the amount.

If they'd really wanted "to be fair", the Times would have pointed out that, in order to accept donations from "Della Ware" and "Saddam Hussein" et al, the Obama website had, intentionally, to disable all the default security settings on their credit-card processing. I took a look at the inner sanctum of my (alas, far more modest) online retail operation this afternoon and, in order to permit fraud as easy as that which the Obama campaign is facilitating, you have to uncheck every single box on the AVS system, each one of which makes it very explicit just what you're doing - ie, accepting transactions with no "billing address", no "street address" match, no "zip code" match, with a bank "of non-US origin" (I've got nothing against those, but a US campaign fundraiser surely should be wary), etc. When you've disabled the whole lot one step at a time, then you've got a system tailor-made for fake names and bogus addresses.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; frg; fundraising; obama; steyn
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The Obama Crime Syndicate is running a fraudulent fundraising scam, unchecking every box of the credit card AVS identifcation system, refusing to disclose the names of small donors.

Stalinists 'R Us

1 posted on 10/24/2008 4:18:50 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Amazing,another Axelrod scam no doubt, these bozos know exactly how far they can go and they go there.
2 posted on 10/24/2008 4:25:13 PM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

If this had been McCain, every news station in the country would be running the story, and Pelosi would be calling for a senate Hearing


3 posted on 10/24/2008 4:25:27 PM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Yes We Can
4 posted on 10/24/2008 4:28:22 PM PDT by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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To: realcleanguy
”If this had been McCain, every news station in the country would be running the story, and Pelosi would be calling for a senate Hearing.”

Well, the only standards the democrats and our ‘free press’ have are the good old double standards.

5 posted on 10/24/2008 4:30:51 PM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

obama ‘appears’ to be Mr. Clean, upright citizen, but I believe he’s running the dirtiest, most crooked campaign ever.


6 posted on 10/24/2008 4:32:59 PM PDT by J40000
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To: ArchAngel1983

Yep


7 posted on 10/24/2008 4:33:15 PM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: realcleanguy

Could BO’s head of finance have her fingers on this

Penny Pritzker controls Transunion the credit reporting company. Does she have her fingers on the credit card co. accepting these donations?


8 posted on 10/24/2008 4:36:39 PM PDT by 54skylark
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THE Penny Pritzker...the one who was head of FAILED Superior Bank....and had a big part in CREATING the sub-prime fiasco......THAT Penny Pritzker???? MSM...are YOU reading....???? Doing any RESEARCH????? Or do we plebes have to do it all for you!?


9 posted on 10/24/2008 4:39:12 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Socialism is great until you run out of someone else's money (M. Thatcher))
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Wonder if these aren’t massive PCI violations as well.


10 posted on 10/24/2008 4:39:24 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: 54skylark

Maybe she is “gleaning” information from other credit companies. We call this credit card fraud. She might call it “potential donor mining”


11 posted on 10/24/2008 4:40:07 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Chairman of the Bard
accepting transactions with no "billing address", no "street address" match, no "zip code" match, with a bank "of non-US origin"

Sounds like the type of lending practices and voter registration practices advocated by dems for years. Where's the friggin media in all this?!@?

12 posted on 10/24/2008 4:47:56 PM PDT by gotribe (obama just sucks)
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To: gotribe
Well, gotribe, I heard that the NYT ran a front page splash above the fold all about Sarah palin’s wardrobe. It's all about priorities, ya know.

I was on the elliptical machine at the gym tonight, and was watching a bit of Wolff Blitzed with the sound off, and the big graphic said “VOTER SUPPRESSION?”

They're in the tank, and they're reveling in it. Journalism's dead.

13 posted on 10/24/2008 4:56:40 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Obama has turned Nixon into a minor leaguer. Lyndon Johnson has nothing on this guy. Obama is involved with: organized massive vote fraud, organized knowing campaign finance fraud, coverup upon coverup, incitement to riot, Logan Act, incitement to committ loan fraud, interfering with US Foreign policy, bribery, perjury, obstruction, plus siamese twin mind melds with killers, communists, racists, and the main stream traitor media.


14 posted on 10/24/2008 5:07:40 PM PDT by Moorka
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To: Moorka
Lyndon Johnson has nothing on this guy.

LBJ was far more orderly about it. His voters actually showed up at the polls in alphabetic order!

15 posted on 10/24/2008 5:14:50 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Chairman of the Bard

What’s the best way to look up Obama’s contributors? The fec’s web site is s-l-o—o-—w.


16 posted on 10/24/2008 5:20:25 PM PDT by supercat (Barry Soetoro == Bravo Sierra)
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To: J40000
obama ‘appears’ to be Mr. Clean, upright citizen, but I believe he’s running the dirtiest, most crooked campaign ever.

Hussein makes the clintons look like pikers.
17 posted on 10/24/2008 5:22:31 PM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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#4 =>> Must see Pic. & thread... Ob & the credit cards donations...


18 posted on 10/24/2008 5:57:24 PM PDT by Golden Gate
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#6 => obama ‘appears’ to be Mr. Clean, upright citizen, but I believe he’s running the dirtiest, most crooked campaign ever.
by J40000


19 posted on 10/24/2008 6:01:15 PM PDT by Golden Gate
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To: goodnesswins

Listening to Austin Hill in DC this evening, when the 9 PM ABC “news” break came on. Eagerly anticipating the vital stories about ACORN and the Obama Crime Syndicate’s continued election fraud campaign, just imagine my surprise when they breathlessly led with Ashley Todd’s hoax, the fresh new “scandal” about Palin’s makeup consultant earning $28,000 in two weeks, her falling favorability numbers, and the ABC poll indicating Messiah’s 9 point lead.

ABC’s got the champagne on ice and the big banner reading “WE DID IT!!” all ready to break out on erection, er, election night.


20 posted on 10/24/2008 6:15:13 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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