‘Obama Money’ Rumor Has People Lining Up in NYC… Again
- Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:28am by
Mike Opelka
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Remember in the fall of 2009 when thousands turned out in Michigan try and get free “Obama money?” Well, it’s happened again — but this time it could be a scam.
Responding to a local rumor, people are standing in line for hours, turning over valuable personal information and expecting to receive a government handout in New York City. If this sounds familiar, it is. Back in the fall of 2009, thousands of people stood in line in Michigan expecting to be given some Obama money. It never arrived.
Glenn Beck reported about it on his Fox News show back then:
Fast forward two-and-a-half years. This time, people in NYC are lining up because they heard that people were getting a debit card loaded with as much as $1,000 of stimulus money. However, based on the latest information, there is no money to be given away. And yet people continue to line up and turn over their sensitive, personal information.
E & M Multi-Services is a tax preparation service that operates out of the back of a “dollar store” in the Fordham section of the Bronx. The company is reportedly collecting copies of Social Security cards, state ID cards and in exchange people are given a debit card from First California Bank. One small problem with this program — the cards are not loaded with $1,000 — not from Obama or anyone. Although, at least one person on the scene believed that the card would contain funds from President Obama:
“They said it was money from Obama.”
Sarah Wallace of ABC7 in New York visited the location and filed this report:
Considering the massive problem of identity theft, handing over your Social Security card, state issued ID cards and other personal information to a business housed in the back of a dollar store is probably not a good idea.
First California Bank has added a disclaimer about the E&M Multi Services to their phone message. The bank is telling customers that any cards issued via E&M have been frozen due to a fraud investigation.
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Comments (530)
CA_Refugee
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:04amHmmm…can collect that kind of information to get your “free Obama money”…but checking a photo ID to vote is considered unconstitutional, racist, and disenfranchised….wow…seems like my tax dollars have been disenfranchised…
Report Post »CCC
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:41pmYou make an excellent point!!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:34pmAll DEMOCRATS….. ALL………this is what they’ve created, it’s sickening, shameful and criminal…
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:36pmI‘m sure they would’ve spent and invested that money wisely…… On crack.
Report Post »bobbiejean
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:20pmHand over personal info—SS cards, photo IDs— to get some money from unknown sources?
No one said you had to be smart in order to do this. Just greedy.
Report Post »Cornflake
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:55amI agree with your comments! But, since it’s a tax firm, maybe these people saw the ad of an umbrella turned upside down with change and dollars falling into it. This ad was for earned income credit and it encouraged people to appy for this free money under the earned income credit. At the bottom of the ad, it stated, “Obama/Biden-2012.” To me, people showing up for free Obama money is like the lady who stated after he won election that she would never have to pay another house payment, or pay to fill her car up with gas again. I‘d certainly like to hear from that same lady now that it’s 2012, and see if she still has a house, a car, and job. Heck, maybe she works for the GSA! Just wondering.
Report Post »GatorSkin
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:00am“He gunna pay my rent, he gunna pay for gas, he gunna buy me food” Sound familiar???? Do these people have no self respect????????
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:15amNone ….
and why isn’t this in the news?
http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/04/barack-obamas-lawyer-admits-birth-certificate-is-forged/
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:29amDo these people have no self respect????????
……………….
you have that right ..Theres more than one way to get free money they could start raising honey bees and have an organic farm
Bon Jovi and Bruce Springstein pay only hundred or two in property taxes for hundreds of acres while their neighbors pay thousands for an acre or two.
and i bet their self respect is sky high … and they don’t even have to stand inline
Report Post »JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:45amNone
Report Post »Rightallalong
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:57amI bet you would not see the same people lining up for a job. What a bunch of losers …
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:15amPeople who line up for a scam, giving away personal information, must love getting something for nothing. How humiliating. Would they line up for work? Where does Obama money come from? They have no idea the rest of us workers pay for them to get all their free stuff……, we pay, not O
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:58pmNo they don’t.While I appreciate everyones insight that it may be the democrats at work collecting info for voter fraud.Has it dawned on anyone that a larger type of fraud is taking place?Consider that its a tax service doing this.Maybe more than meets the eye.Hum collect perples IDs and personal information.The fact that they have given it to a complete stranger on a promise of invisible money proves they are gullible possibly downright stupid.Sit on the IDs and then in a couple years the IDs end up with a criminal owner and have a PTIN issued to them.The PTIN is used to commit various forms of tax fraud.Its dumped like a hot potato once the crimes are commited.Since these people probaly aren‘t preparers they won’t know to check for that type of fraud.Or to stop it before it starts.All the criminalsls need to do is run a background on the peoples IDs they have stolen.Those who have squeaky clean records are at most risk as that is going to be who they use first and most.
Report Post »Hate to inform them of this, but unless something changes, tax services won’t be offering the RAL next year and quite possibly never again.There is only one bank that is currently offering this service and they wern’t happy about it.Translated instant money fraud won’t be available as a crime to be commited.Woo Hoo.
eugenia
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:17amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI
Report Post »Here ya’ go Gatorskin, the video just in case people have forgotten.
just lil old me
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:05pmNotice how they prey on the blacks? It is downright shameful!
Report Post »schlitten15
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:05am@ Gatorskin! No, these people are just plain dumb in my humble opinion.
Report Post »bullrider
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:46pmPeople used to be proud of themselves – you know, “self-esteem” – when they earned their own way and proved that they were able to provide for themselves. Now it‘s ’how much can I get without doing anything’. We subsidize the Democrats’ voter base with our tax dollars, and we are told we are the greedy ones who need to share. I want a housekeeper, a cook, and a gardener FOR FREE in exchange for some of my taxes, how about it? And like paying taxes, they would have to do their jobs properly or go to jail.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:00amI think I know why Democrats do NOT want to improve the public school system.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:39amYou HIT it. If you keep the inner city residents uneducated, with no useful skills, addicted to drugs and alcohol and totally blissful living on welfare, then they become SLAVES to the welfare check. Furthermore, they don’t have the mental ability to spot a scam. They only think about what they can get from the system.
Report Post »Just look at how so many ripped off FEMA after Katrina. Can you imagine what fun they would have with $1000.00 of “Obama Money”.
HuskerDave
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:44amDing ding ding!!!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:46amhard to believe we all share air with these people. there is no excuse for being this stupid.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:33amI’m told that if you just pour a few buckets of corn on the ground, sooner or later, the wild pigs will come trotting through the woods.
First, they’ll sniff the corn and run away. Eventually, though, they’ll find it delicious. The best part is that they’ll tell all their friends. Soon you’ll have a whole herd of them scarfing what they think is free corn.
Then, put up one side of strong fence. Naturally, the wild pigs will run away. But soon, they’ll drift back to the corn.
A few weeks later, put up the second length of fence. They’ll disappear, but they’ll return, because they’re used to the program. Then the third side. But keep spreading that corn. It’s become part of their routine.
Finally, it’s time to put up the fourth side of the fence, the business side, the side with a gate.
Just keep adding corn, and soon they’ll trot through the woods and through the gate. All you have to do is close the door.
They won‘t even notice they’ve been caught. That’s when you begin the process of domestication.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:55pm@TH30PH1LUS– How close you are to the truth!–
Report Post »Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on two farms in Michigan with the intent of shooting all the farmers’ pigs under a bizarre new “Invasive Species Order” (ISO) that has suddenly
declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.
barber2
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:59amDemocrats are probably just holding training sessions for the November voting process !
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:07amif………obama is re-elected this will become reality for most of the country………….america will be broke and people will be lineing up for food and toliet paper…………remember the soviet ubion
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:59amtime to stock up on protection . Timing is everything . Especially if these guys get 4 more years to absorb state‘s and individual’s rights into their federal czardom…
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:59amAnd YOU middle-class America were made bigger fools on 4/15. YOU just paid your $$$$$$$ to someone who saddled you with debt without your permission. Your paycheck is cyber space air backed by nothing AND can be frozen by bureaucrats, and you stand for this. YOUR lands most of them now belong to foreigners as downpayment for the cyber money thye print so that your DC bureaucrats can live like kings, and make policies for your life that you would never engage in on your own, like wars, tearing down countries and putting them in debt………….YOU Americans are bigger fools than these ignorant sheeple. Go watch the movie “Thrive” from thrivemovement.org 4/15 is your Aprils Fool Day. You are all like lamb to the slaughter.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:01amoh no. another one of the “ sheeple ” gang .
Report Post »Certainperson
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:51amSo I protest taxes by not paying them, then sitting in prison? How would that help the tax situation?
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:56amFirst of all, the police should be investigating this. That said, this really is kind of funny. Can you imagine what these people think when they go shopping assuming they are getting “free” stuff and then when they go to check out they learn that there is no money on the card? Yeah, dummies, that’s Obama for you! A whole lotta nothin’. Hopefully, this will cost Obama a few votes.
Report Post »denispaul
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:47amThat would be racial profiling.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:12pmIt won’t cost Obama any votes. It be Bush‘s fault these poor opressed people didn’t get that Obama money that was rightfully theirs. Oh, and the Fatcat Jewish Bankers on Wall Street. And of course, George Zimmermann.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:56amAnd getting I.D. for voters is a hardship,but free money,they got all the I.D. you want
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:06amExcellent point .. the only “problem” that voter I.D. causes is stopping fraud .. which is why the Dems have a problem with it …. These people have I.D. and having to show it would stop them busing them into different precincts and voting multiple times .. and the dead voting. And illegals. WE NEED PURPLE FINGERS … i.e one vote and have to prove that you deserve that.
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:19amAmen
Report Post »FLPAINTBRUSHMAMA
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:54amExactly!!! This looks like a Democratic PartyVoter Registration Drive to me!!!! I.D. is needed to get any kind of government assistance. Only when it comes to “clean” voting rosters does I.D. become a problem for the Democrats.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:52pmI agree with the PURPLE FINGERS,..Only,..It’s just too surefire and way too simple.
Report Post »bullrider
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:50pmIndiana has voter photo ID and it has been found to be Constitutional, as it should be. Eric Holder says ‘there is no voter fraud problem’ as someone is handed Holder’s ballot right in DC. What would Mr. Holder say when he got to the polls and was told ‘sorry, you have already voted’?
What would any of us say? Better yet, what would the news media do with that story? Answer: Nothing.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:54amThis reminds me of that story Glenn showed us about how 80% of an entire town were lining up to receive Section 8 Housing. But here’s where the story gets good, there wasn’t actually a handout, only a whiff of freebie’s scent floating on the breeze.
Course that‘s enough for anybody with a trained nose to come stampeding from all over if it means they don’t have to work at all to have the most important purchase any of us ever make. Free houses! Whatever could go wrong?
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:17amLooks like a bunch of union workers called in sick! What did the mailman do with his mailbag and mail. This isn’t fair, since I live in Oklahoma. The president should be fair and set up the free debit cards in each state as he campaigns. I want my $1,000.00 bucks to.
A guy ran up to the line of people and said to them, “Somebody just stole my car from the parking spot by you.” The guy replied, “Did you see who stole it?” The people answered, “I couldn’t tell but we got da license plate number.”
Report Post »mtnhimike
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:53amThese jerks will give up information for a Scam but they will riot if they are ask for ID to vote. what a bunch of totally worthless Obama lovers.
Report Post »DebbieB
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:04amYou hit the nail on the head!!!!
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:08amMike
They only have “give me free money” identification. It won’t work for voter id because there is nothing free at the voting center.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:53amsuperb PR move. Hope it works
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:53amDerisive, divisive, dirty, disgusting and downright deplorable!! What‘s next what’s next, what’s next, what’s next?
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:52amHow can so many people be suffering from self-inflicted stupidity?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:56amSocialist don’t know any better, it’s what they have always done.
Report Post »J_Ruben_Kincaid
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:03amLife long and in many cases, generations long dependency on the government for everything.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:08amStupid should hurt.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:51amGreat PR move, Hope it works
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:02amDo you think it’s a good PR move?
Report Post »Arc
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:50amGreat PR move. Hope it works.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:49amSuperb PR. Hope it works like a charm.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:46amOh snap, I ax da bank an day say Obama send money when he get it from Buffett
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:07pmVOTER FRAUD……. or maybe stealing the money from their EBT cards. Or guess what maybe both.
Report Post »mtorres20
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:45amI never thought about that but yes it makes sense! Voter fraud is a real possibility for this year.
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:05amVery real indeed…..the system is weak. Check this: Man registers his dog to vote!
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-01/news/31114969_1_voter-registration-registration-system-voting-process
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:44amPeople can only be exploited when they are dumber than a mud fence. How can anyone, regardless of skin color be SO stupid.
Report Post »This is why Barry will be re-elected in a Landslide, they are gathering information for a voter registration fraud scheme.
BUMB, just plain a$$, DUMB.
mycomet123
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:50amHow can people be so stupid? GREED blinds people. That’s how Barry gets reelected! People like free money more than morality!
Report Post »bobby12
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:57amHopefully there are still enought “smart” people to not let this man be elected again!!
I will never understand the mantality of some people…………..these are the same people who think the other half “owe” them and Obamo is counting of this!!!!
Report Post »bullrider
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:56pmObama will not be re-elected for these reasons: 1 – he got massive turnout from the blacks and uber-liberals in the last election. There is no way to boost that turnout. What he got then is probably more than he will get now. 2 – He did very well with independents last time who now see he has utterly failed at anything except running up the debt. 3 – People are not going to reward him with their vote when he crammed a healthcare bill down their throat that they did not and DO not want. 4 – the economy is in the tank, gas is through the roof, groceries are going up, and now we are seeing even the liberal media tiring of him and realizing he is either ineffective or just plain stupid. 5 – Conservatives are motivated big-time to get out and vote in this election. Look at the sales of guns and tell me there is not a huge concern over leaving this guy in office.
There will be massive attempts at fraud and other nonsense but there will not be enough to save him.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:44amThis truly shows that the people on welfare can be easily duped. This is why the bloodsuckers in Washington pray on the poor. Gullible idiots. I hope none of them get taken, but on the other hand I hope some do to teach them a lesson. Nothing in life is free and there is no such thing as Obama money.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:43amMention, free and money in the same sentence and see who lines up. Obama’s people.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:43amSubhuman leeches. Half of them are probably wearing $300 Nike’s.
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:22ama $ 300 cell phone, $150 pair of jeans, $200 watch and a $60 dollars worth of weed in there pocket.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:31amYou left out. “Taken From Dead People’s Feet!”
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:48am* Blows Whistle* Racial Profiling! ***Smirks***
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:22amiPhones…phone plans….but so poor they need Obama to give them Medicaid..at our expense.
Report Post »StanSteam
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:07pmCable or satellite t.v., cars. . .all the stuff we work for they get to keep while collecting assistance that we pay for.
Report Post »this1can
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:22amdon’t forget about that mouth full of gold Love/Pray
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:42amJust fools wishing for the next Pied Piper to be real. Some how these people are going to get scammed in the deal.
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:42amStupid is as stupid does!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:38amMaybe collecting “voter information”?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:48amReading that statement gave me a jolt at first. Then after thinking about it, the area will go to 0bama hands down anyway. But, it could be a test bed to be tried else where in the country if it is not already.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:56amAnyone looking for a hand out will be voting for Obama anyway.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:01amThat’s what I was thinking after thinking the unpolitically correct n word.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:35amCollecting personal information from people who have no credit, no job and no credentials? Who is scamming whom?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:43amIllegals & Terrorists… need ID & Papers!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:45amVoter fraud perhaps ??? Sounds like a job for ACORN or whatever they are calling themselves these days.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:00pmReally?You know a few years ago you would have been right.Too many formerly working people are on the rolls now.Furthermore not everyone who is on welfare has rotten credit or credentials or other assorted no gos for criminals.Wake up please.The criminals today use some of the most sophisticated methods around.Educate yourself please for your own sake.
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