October 23, 2008
Set up for fraud
In Who is John Galt Scott Johnson at Powerline quotes from a reader e-mail he received. The man made a credit card donation to Barak Obama under the name John Galt with the address of 1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999 on a credit card issued in his own name. Obama's site did not require the 3 digit verification code. The donation went through. The reader notesThis simply should not, and could not, happen in any business or any campaign that is honestly trying to vet it's donors. Also, I don't see how this could possibly happen without the collusion of the credit card companies. They simply wouldn't allow any business to process, potentially, hundreds of millions in credit card transactions where the name on the card doesn't match the purchasers name. In short, with the system set up as it is by the Obama camp, an individual could donate unlimited amounts of money by simply making up fake names and addresses. And Obama is...(Read Full Post)