Wednesday, October 29, 2008


ENCOURAGING CREDIT FRAUD: OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN RIGGED THEIR DONATION SYSTEM TO ACCEPT FRAUDULENT CONTRIBUTIONS.

I posted earlier on an experiment done at both the McCain and Obama sites. They put in phony info with a real credit card number to see what would happen. The Obama site accepted the donation. The McCain site did not. The normal, accepted practice is to only take info that matches the info connected with the card number. The Obama campaign purposely disabled this verification. Could there be any other reason to do this than to allow people to give over the limit and allow fraudulent and overseas money to pour in? If there is, I would be curious to know what that reason might be. This verification system is called AVS and it is up to the the merchant to use this system to protect himself from fraudulent charges or not. From Hot Air:
The value of the AVS system is to deny Card Not Present transactions (CNP) which are suspicious. This protects the merchant against charge backs for bad transactions. What is interesting to me is that the merchant acquirer has knowingly violated a basic CNP fraud prevention technique to accommodate a merchant (Obama Campaign). I think that both the Associations (VISA & MasterCard) would be highly interested in looking at the merchant acquirer that was processing these transactions. The value of ignoring the AVS responses is that multiple invalid transactions may be made without fear of being rejected by the authorization systems. This means that the real owner of the credit card account is willing to allow multiple transactions to be made on the account using different names and addresses that under normal conditions would be denied.
Let's make a list, shall we?
  • Allied with an unrepentant domestic terrorist
  • "Spiritually mentored" by a racist Marxist "reverend" for 20 years
  • Allied with a PLO operative when they were labeled terrorist
  • Welded to ACORN, the voter and voter registration fraud experts
  • Encouraging illegal and fraudulent donations to his campaign
Patterns, people, patterns.

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