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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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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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