Eyes On The Hurricane Scam Sites

By now you can see it coming, almost as soon as Hurricane Katrina made landfall, scam artists were setting up their online piggy banks to collect the pennies of the unwitting. Rita, not quite the shrew that Katrina was, will no doubt see Rita relief scams, and an international "call to arms," has been launched to flog the offenders. Within the week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, 2500 Katrina-relief related domains were registered. Within two weeks, 4000 websites advertised collection services for the disaster, 60% of which came from E-Commerce Times. When Katrina-related "ourtsumami2005.com" showed up on eBay listings with an opening bid of $15,000, the online auction site took quick action to have it removed. The site