Obama Phishing Expedition Reels in a Whopper

Have you signed up for the Obama Campaign via one of his campaign pages on Facebook, MySpace or mybarackobama.com? Remember all that personal information you were required to give, such “home addresses, phone numbers, [your] views on specific issues and the names of friends”?

Well, according to Bloomberg, you just made you (and your friends) part of the biggest Democrat fundraising database. Long after you’ve forgotten who Obama is, you’ll still be getting calls from the Democrat party asking for money for whatever agenda it is currently pushing:

Even if the Democratic presidential candidate doesn’t succeed in his White House bid, this data will make Obama a power broker in the party for years to come. For the interest groups or Democratic candidates he chooses to sell it to, it would provide a gold mine of information and access to potential donors.

Almost 2 million people have entered personal information on Obama pages on social-networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and his campaign’s mybarackobama.com, offering home addresses, phone numbers, their views on specific issues and the names of friends. The data have allowed Obama, 46, to raise more than $200 million, fill sports arenas with supporters across the nation and motivate millions more with custom-tailored messages.

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The Illinois senator’s biggest innovation is in persuading people to enter personal information directly on his campaign’s Web site, according to Bill McIntyre, executive vice president of Grassroots Enterprise Inc., a Washington-based Internet marketing firm that advises campaigns….Continue Reading on Bloomberg >>

Hat-tip Patrick Ruffini via FriendFeed