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Surfer Beware Hurricane Internet Scams Abound We’ve united to help the Gulf Coast begin to recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. But sadly, when disasters occur, scammers looking for a quick buck inevitably follow. The FBI has reported that, as of mid-September, about 4,000 Web sites were claiming to offer help to victims and that about 60 percent of them were probably scams. Besides fraudulent Web sites, the most common Hurricane Internet-related scams are e-mail solicitations, a practice called “phishing,” asking for money for Hurricane victims. The message asks for a donation and, when an unsuspecting donor provides a credit card number or makes an electronic payment, the money is pocketed by the scammer and identity theft is a possibility. Rip-off attempts based upon the notorious “Nigerian fee scams” are also making the rounds. Other e-mail scams don’t even require a reply. Messages with Hurricane-related subject lines and file attachments carrying Trojans or viruses can infe
