Obama Will Pay For Your Healthcare, But Not Your Utility Bills

July 7, 2012 | Filed under Barack Obama,Dumb Criminals | Posted by

You’ve got to hand it to criminals, they know how to tap into the zeitgeist of a populace and use that against them. Via Lucianne comes this South Bend Tribune article:

OSCEOLA — It’s a new scam, said the Better Business Bureau. President Barack Obama is not offering to pay your utility bills.

In the scam, which recently hit Michiana, consumers are being contacted in person and through fliers, social media and text messages with claims that Obama is providing credits or applying payments to utility bills.

People are then asked to provide their Social Security and bank routing numbers in order to receive the money. In exchange, they are given a phony bank routing number that they are told will pay their utility bills.

The first thing I thought of was Peggy Joseph, who in 2008 was sure a Barack Obama presidency would take care of her mortgage and bills.

I predict this scam will succeed beyond the criminals wildest expectations…

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Posted by on July 7, 2012.
Filed under Barack Obama, Dumb Criminals.
Doug Johnson is a news junkie and long time blog reader, turned author.

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  • jim_m

    0bama’s campaign is running behind on donations. Maybe they’re just trying to catch up.

  • 914

    Con Man 101.. Barry’s outreach stimulus are coming home to roost!

  • Commander_Chico

    Not really. Those susceptible to such a scam have little in the bank.

    • cirby

      Well, until the first of the month, when their Social Security or Welfare payments land.

      Even someone making minimum wage is worth a few hundred bucks on paydays.

    • 914

      DERP!!

    • 914

      Oh, they must be freeloa.. Free riders then?

      • GarandFan

        Or maybe “free range”?

  • retired.military

    Anyone who falls for this is so stupid they have to had voted for Obama and plan to vote for him again.

  • GarandFan

    Why not? After all, don’t you have a RIGHT to a “free cell phone”?

  • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

    I’m kind of surprised this didn’t show up before. The gullible saps who voted for him because of all the ‘free’ stuff coming out of his stash were just plain primed for a scam like this.

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  • deltamary

    I overhead 2 black females talking right after the election and they were bragging to each other how Obama was going to pay her credit card bills and get her a new car.
    And the sad thing, they believed all this. Often wonder what happened to them

  • retired.military

    There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
    students in the class.One day while the class was in the lab, the professor
    noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and
    stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was
    the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had
    been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to
    overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.

    In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange
    question. He asked: “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”

    The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

    The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a
    suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it
    and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.

    “When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of
    the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence,
    they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

    “They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have
    all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

    “The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate
    to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the
    whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around
    and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to
    eating the free corn because they have no other choice. They are so used to
    it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so
    they accept their captivity.”

    The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening
    in America . The present government keeps pushing us toward
    Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of
    programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax
    exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops
    (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our
    freedoms, just a little at a time. You hardly notice when it all gone. Their
    motive for all the free things is very simple. Its not that they really care
    for you, not at all, it assures their continued re-electability by the same
    simple fools they provide for.