WorldNetDaily: 'Birth certificate' seller vanishes into thin air

[usregimechange]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The eBay seller who first offered – and then promised to reveal to WND – an alleged Barack Obama birth
certificate from Mombasa, Kenya, has dropped communications with a team of people offering to help him verify the document, only fueling belief the sale was a scam...

Eventually, the seller promised to make a YouTube video of his story and reveal the "birth certificate" to WND. Neither promise was fulfilled.

WND also launched an investigation into "colmado_naranja," which led through several online aliases and reported collaborators, including Dawnella Wilson, "InspectorSmith" and, eventually, Lucas Smith, a former resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who still claims to have possession of the document.

Smith, whose background includes a lengthy criminal record and a reported attempt to sell his kidney to a man in need of organ transplant, nonetheless insists that his motives are above board, even if his past looks dubious.

"I do have a background. I've made mistakes in my life," Smith told WND in an email. "It took a guy like me to go and get tangible proof about Obama. I don't mind breaking a few laws or policies here and there. I don't mind paying the military in foreign countries to look the other way ... The military will grant you access to anything for just a few dollars. People are starving. So yes, it takes a guy like me to get things done once in a while."

When WND, however, pressed Smith to offer any evidence of the document's validity – a birth certificate number, a photo of the embossed seal on the alleged document, anything – Smith balked.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104495


:spray: :rofl: :crazy:

[C_U_L8R]

1. Can you imagine all the money to be made off these idiots?

Apparently, they'll buy anything : - )))

[usregimechange]

2. I can't stop laughing!

[CreekDog]

10. Yup, ask Pat Robertson

:eyes:

[Wapsie B]

3. God are people gullible or what?

A creative mind could scam these birthers just like this guy did. He certainly won't be the last.

[Historic NY]

7. Yes they are...I know lots of Freepers that believe they will win lotteries..

they never entered, contests they never got tickets for, they hope to win even if it is a fantasy.

[opihimoimoi]

4. FUCK...Ya mean to say I Bought a.....a.....friggen FAKE?????

[bbinacan]

5. Why am I not surprised? n/t

[Historic NY]

6. well............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo

[Brother Buzz]

8. But, but, but WND has already stated Obama's Hawaiian certification of live birth to be authentic

ELECTION 2008
Democrat sues Sen. Obama over 'fraudulent candidacy'
Lawsuit disputing U.S. citizenship based in part on discredited claims
Posted: August 23, 2008
5:40 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

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However, FactChecker.org says it obtained Obama's actual certification of live birth and that the document was indeed real. The site discredited some of the claims of Internet bloggers, such as that the certificate as viewed in a scanned copy released by Obama's campaign lacked a raised seal. FactChecker.org also established that many of the alleged flaws in the document noted by bloggers were caused by the scanning of the document.

A separate WND investigation into Obama's certification of live birth utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren't originally there.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73214

Now I'm really confused. :rofl:

[Windy]

9. who the hell believes this crap... the 20 - 30%s are certifiable

actually, they are racists... no question about it.

[Hieronymus]

24. True, even Hillary couldn't resist saying, in the campaign, that as far as

she knew ...

[burning rain]

11. God wants them to be fleeced; that's why He made them sheep.

~

[Politicalboi]

12. Dear World Nut Daily

I have unclaimed money for you. All you need to do is send me $50,000 and I will release 2.3 Million dollars to you, all for doing nothing.

Just send it to
742 Evergreen Terrace
Springfield

[usregimechange]

13. Damn, why didn't I think of that?

[Politicalboi]

15. LOL!

I'll share with fellow DUer's here.

[safeinOhio]

17. HAH they fell for the oldest scam in the world.

The whole thing started in a African Email sent to a list of Walmart shoppers.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Another guy will show up and he'll have the really real

birth certificate.

[Cha]

16. Fucker took the suckers' money

and ran.

[KingFlorez]

18. They open themselves up for scammers looking for an easy buck

The scammers know that they'll believe anyone with these birth certificate claims.

[usregimechange]

19. hummmmm...

[zulchzulu]

20. I'll lend Lucas Smith my .357 so he can shoot himself in the head

Really... I'll lend it to him...

[usregimechange]

22. You make me want to support handgun bans.

[zulchzulu]

23. Heh...

It's locked up and unloaded...

:hi:

[LiberalFighter]

21. Are the Nigerians behind this scam to make money off of the birthers?

I sure do hope so.

[AspenRose]

25. Still waiting for the "Whitey" tape, too....

:eyes:

[Phx_Dem]

26. The birthers probably ate him! n/t