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Hurricane Scams?

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maddogchen

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Online con artists have launched at least a dozen scams preying on people donating to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts or seeking news, federal authorities and anti-spam experts say.

The FBI is looking into suspicious Web sites and phishing spam messages that attempt to filch personal data such as credit card numbers, spokesman Paul Bresson says.

Some e-mails with fake news alerts include links to sites loaded with computer viruses designed to steal or destroy personal information, says computer-security firm Sophos. It also has spotted e-mails with links to "spoofed" Web sites that look like valid charities.

Separately, individuals are seeking thousands of dollars on eBay for the rights to Internet domain names containing Katrina and hurricane, says Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at Sans Institute, a computer-security company.

"Any time there's a tragedy, cybercriminals attempt to cash in. It's like clockwork," says Stephen Canale, an independent spam analyst.
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Find the scammers and shoot them. Simply argue in court that they were looting "and they just said shoot looters on sight"
Case dismissed 🙂
 
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