Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters

Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-02

As chaos and looting continue in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, online carpetbaggers and fraudsters are taking the opportunity to flood the Internet with fake charity Web sites and malicious code tied to the natural disaster.

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Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters 2005-09-06
Anthony LAI, CISSP, CISA

In fact, this case happened when Southern Asia Tsunami striked. Again, we need to make sure whether the charity identification, for safety reason, it is better to donate via pay-in cheque....

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Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters 2005-09-06
Anonymous

The flip side of this issue is that some sites that are legitimately raising money for hurricane victims are having their donation accounts frozen - for an example: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3186

This really is a case where usability and security need to come to a balance. We ...

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Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters 2005-09-11
Juha-Matti Laurio

The list of domain names using .com, .net and .org suffixes is long and a lot of imagination was used. Internet Storm Center (ISC) has collected a list after getting observations from their volunteers:

http://isc.sans.org/katrina.com.txt

A diagram which opens eyes describing the number of 'katrina...

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Over 2300 Katrina-related sites according to new sources 2005-09-13
Juha-Matti Laurio

FBI has information about more than 2,300 Katrina-related sites:

http://www.scambusters.org/hurricanekatrinascams.html

The fact is that "of the 800 the FBI had investigated, 60% were presumed to be bogus."

Now many of these sites has been killed by the authorities....

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