Two Weeks Before Election Obama Website Finally Stops Taking Contributions From Made-Up Names

• October 24, 2008

After taking online contributions from contributors with the unlikely names of Jgtj Jfggjjfgj, Doodad Pro and (ahem) Ben Dover, it appears as though the Obama campaign has just now instituted security measures to stop such illegal transactions from taking place.
This per a reader at The Corner:

I tried to donate $5 in the name of “Borat Oblama” from “Madeuptown, USA”, using a legit credit card number, and got a screen saying the card didn’t match the address.
Apparently they’ve been shamed into reinstating the security checks.

Apparently, but you have to wonder how much lighter Obama’s campaign coffers would be if the campaign had instituted these security measures all along.
We also have to wonder how much sooner these sort of fraudulent transactions would have been stopped if the media was at all interested in covering a negative story about the Obama campaign. If John McCain had been taking these sort of contributions you can bet the media would have been all over him.
And, perhaps most importantly, we should wonder how many of Obama’s hundreds of millions of unreported (because they were below the $250 minimum threshold for reporting) contributions were from nonsense contributors like those mentioned above.
Quite a few, I’m willing to wager, but what can be done? What’s the FEC going to do if Obama is found to have perpetrated campaign financing fraud on the same scale ACORN has perpetrated voter registration fraud? Are they going to take the White House away from him? Not bloody likely. He’d get some bad press, and slap on the wrist, and that’d be it.
Meaning that Obama has all the incentive in the world to cheat like this, and nothing at all to lose.

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http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Ugly facts for the supporters of Obama‘s fraud:

It’s called the Address Verification System (AVS). When you submit a credit card to the processor for authorization you get back one of four responses: zipcode match, address match, both match, or neither match.

AVS is automatic and can’t be turned off. You can, however, override it in special circumstances. It looks like Obama’s web site has the AVS-override turned on permanently.

Just more “distractions” AKA any ugly truth about Obama that his sycophant followers do not like.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Vote fraud supporter.

Vote fraud supporter.

These are the same people who claim to love democracy – except when it doesn’t go their way. At that point, cheating is fine. Just call your opponent a “dipshit” and carry on ignoring the fraud engaged in by the Obama campaign.
gael

From a blog at a Wash Times article today:

C. C.| New York, NY
NEW Facts from a friend of mine who was
working on the Obama Campaign but just quit
after this. The reason he has raised as much
money as he has for example he has 130
million in the bank vs Mccains 46 million is
because he is having people submit multiple
small donations under false names and false
addresses, but even more frightening is the
over seas postage coming in from the middle
east and then being re sealed into envelope
and mailed again from us post office so its
non traceable to the original source. This
scared her so bad she quit.

J. W.| Andover, NJ
I read your statement earlier and also have a
friend who worked with the Obama campaign
and also quit after being asked to take
donations coming in from the middle east
and having to put them in new envelope and
mail them back to the campaign under fake
names so it looks like it came domestically.
WAY TOO FRIGHTENING.
dannyboy

Dipshit: Obviously, the validation was credit card number against address. The fact that neither you nor the “reader” at the corner don’t realize that the name entered had nothing to do with the error message is not surprising.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I am sure in the interest of fairness you did the same fake name test with mcCain. what was the results??

Here’s someone who did.

So I went to the Obama website this afternoon and clicked on the “Donate” button.

I used my real MasterCard number (but was not asked for the 3 digit security code).

Used the following information and it was accepted…

First name: Fake
Last Name: Donor
Address: 1 Dollar To Prove A Point
City: Fraudulent
State: AL
Zip / Post: 33333
Email Address: allmyinfoismadeup@mediabias.com
Phone Number: 2125551212
Employer: Mainstream Media
Occupation: Being in the Tank

And incredibly, my $5 donation was ACCEPTED!!!

I then went to the McCain site and used the exact same information (and WAS asked for the 3 digit security code for my MasterCard). There, my contribution was rejected with the following message: “Your transaction was not approved for the following reason(s): Invalid data”, and then: “We have found errors in the information that you have submitted. Please review the information below and try again.”
tebo

I am sure in the interest of fairness you did the same fake name test with mcCain. what was the results??

The voter fraud stories about ACORN are designed to be misleading. yes it is massive but it is highly unlikely that it would have any impact on any election. What do you think will happen when a pancake house or a fish named george go to vote? This was a fraud AGAINST ACORN by its own temp staff that got paid by the number of people they signed up. Voter registration laws force organization to file all names even if it is clear that the name is fake. The only effect it will have is to slow down the registration attempts of legitimate citizens – in this year it would clearly hurt Obama more than McCain because new voters favor Obama by a large margin. It is not an attempt to hijack the election.

The ACORN stories are an attempt to imply a sinister Obama plot and scare people into voting for McCain. trick or treat. The sad truth is that many people are ignorant enough to believe, it maybe McCain’s best shot at winning.
Oedipus

Dipshit: Obviously, the validation was credit card number against address. The fact that neither you nor the “reader” at the corner don’t realize that the name entered had nothing to do with the error message is not surprising.

Yes, dipshitter. Fake name and fake address. Also, foreign cards drawn from foreign banks. No checks against the number on back, either.

No. Validation. Whatsoever. (Besides the card number being valid).
RebTex

At what point will the campaigns be forced to disclose all donors?
Why are there folks being charged with contributions to obama that didn’t even want to contribute?
Why are the partys allowing influences from outside this Nation to steer their campaigns?
/I know..rhetorical questions
Hungry Bear

he fact that Obama refuses to say who gave him money leads me to only one conclusion:

Barack Obama’s campaign is the most corrupt in my lifetime.

P.S. I’m almost 50
Oedipus

Actually, they didn’t stop. Folks contributed under fake names even after that report.
Jerry

Barbara Streisand to the 10th power..
kbiel

Eh, this is just another distraction. Nothing important to see here. Let’s talk about Palin’s wardrobe expense.

Signed,
MSM
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

The tests of both campaigns related here.

And tebo, agreeing with eunuchized the beardless catamite of the “freudian projections” and inability to admit error is a self inflicted shotgun wound to the credibility.
Hannitized

Dipshit: Obviously, the validation was credit card number against address.

Rob; ever the clear thinker.
s

Paranoia and unfounded facts equals more of the same negative. What goes around comes around, so take notice.

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