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I don’t have an email address I can post here yet, but I have a contact at the Red Cross who is looking for any and all scams related to Hurricane Katrina. If you recieve any emails asking you to send in money to support disaster relief, you can almost guarantee that it’s a scam. The American Red Cross, and most other charitable organizations, are never going to send you an email asking for donations, so it’s safe to assume any such emails you recieve are bogus.

Email me at martin_at_mckeay_dot_net (obfuscation is annoying, aint it) if you get any scam emails.

Edit:

Well, since this information has already been posted to a site with a lot more traffic than mine (www.cccure.org), I might as well post the information so you can contact the Red Cross directly if you see any phishing come across your desk.

– From the CISSP Forum –

Typically after a significant event such as Katrina, we see a lot of
fraudulent activity associated with Red Cross donation solicitations.
The obvious forms of fraud manifest themselves as email solicitations
and web sites. If you happen to come across any type of Internet-
based fraudulent activity please pass on to me at
BaklarzR@usa.redcross.org so we can investigate and turn over to Law
Enforcement. We already had a miscreant on Monday post to a bbs that
he sent out 14 Million email solicitations for Red Cross donations
with an embedded link to a fraudulent web site.

Thank you,

——————–
Ron Baklarz CISSP, CISM, CISA, IAM, IEM
Chief Information Security Officer
FIRST Representative ARCcert
The American Red Cross
8111 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
MS: 4201
Email: BaklarzR@usa.redcross.org