SHOCK!!
Gene E. Yuss
The story? naah. That it ran in a real noozpaper? You betcha. That it hadda be written by a blogger? Dang-near expected…
Barack Obama has proved the greatest fund-raiser of all time by a long shot. ...$600 million—$150 million in September alone. ... The average contribution to Obama in September was just under $86…
But the campaign has also failed to adopt standard protections against fraudulent giving.
There is a standard part of all off-the-shelf online credit card acceptance software [and whaddya gonna do - write yer own?!?]. It’s called Address Verification System [AVS] and it automatically contacts the credit card servers to match the address given to the address on file with that card number. No matchee = no pay. Try using your own perfectly good credit card at Amazon or Hickory Farms or Bacon ‘R’ Us online and mistyping your address. No bacon 4 U!
But apparently the O-bamna campaign has gone through the trouble of hiring an expensive electron-herder to disable differently-able that AVS part of its online credit card acceptance software. So for every donation under $200, they keep the given name/addy/occupation required by law—but they purge the card numbers - the only way to tell where the money is actually coming from.
So, theoretically, mind you, one of those eeevil rich fellers sitting around on his bags of ca$h could hire a drunken meth-crazed over-achieving monkey to hit the keyboard, making up names and addresses and clicking that big red “Donate” button for a week straight.
Who’s donated so far?
John Galt, 1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999…
Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, Della Ware, Joe Plumber, Idiot Savant, Ima BadDonation (with a Canadian bank card) and Fake Donor.
And that’s just from our side of the aisle…
FEC? Hello??
*crickets*
WASS
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