Testing McCain and Obama web sites – credit card fraud: Update

October 24, 2008 | Jim Vicevich | |

Much thanks to good enterprise journalism from Conservative247. With updates, they tested both the McCain and Obama websites and found their credit card contributions were rejected by the McCain campaign but accepted by the Obama campaign … even though the card address on the contribution did not match the billing address.

Got an e-mail from the Obama campaign with a thank you note. Guess that car magnet will get “lost in the mail” since the address does not exist. After more than an hour, no e-mail from McCain campaign.

As we noted just below … this has been now tested all over the country and would allow donors to exceed contribution limits simply by submitting hundreds of donations with different names. Again, where is the justice department.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

5 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on October 24, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Atlas Shrugs (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/) has some nice data, links and opinion on this very topic that you might find interesting too, Jim.



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