Identity Theft Credit Card Fraud for Obama?

[Evilmav2]

Just as an interesting point, I recently heard some anecdotal complaints about credit card fraud and the Obama campaign as well. Last week I was talking to a contractor I know who has had to deal with repeated problems with unapproved charges being made for the Obama campaign. This fella supports Obama, and had previously donated a total of $150 to the Obama campaign in two separate donations, but in his last month's bill he discovered that he was being charged an additional $400 on his statement, all charged in four weekly sets of four $25 charges.

Of course he wasn't very happy to find that he was being charged $100 a week in Obama donations, but when he tried to get the matter cleared up by calling his credit card company, they gave him a very hard time about the charges because he had previously donated to Obama, and even though he canceled that card, he told me that he is probably going to have to eat those Obama charges. He said that the credit card company told him that the Obama campaign was extremely unhelpful and disorganized in addressing the problem, and that even though he wants Obama to win the race, he'll probably never contribute money to a political campaign again because he believes the Obama campaign made the repeat charges on purpose using his previously filed credit card information. I told him he should complain to the FEC or call a local news station, but he said he doesn't want any trouble, and he does want Obama to win the presidency, so even though he's p*ssed, he's going to pay those bad charges if the credit card company won't forgive them.

Personally, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that stories like that of my contractor friend, and the one relayed by the article below are much more common than general news coverage might lead us to believe...


Northland Couple Warns of Political Credit Card Fraud

Last Edited: Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008, 10:23 PM CDT
Created: Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008, 8:58 PM CDT

NORTH KANSAS CITY, MO. -- 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.

"You always get emails saying be on the lookout," said Rachel. "So I just wanted to get the word out, that there's someone out there perpetrating this against people, and to pay attention."

The Obama campaign said they were aware of the Larman's story, but did not have any comment.

Megan Cloherty, FOX 4 News

http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/N...Y&pageId=3.2.1