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Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave
ruphus13 sends in a sad tale of online scammers hoping to reap rewards from the misery in Gustav's wake. They have been busy registering likely-sounding domains and setting up phishing attacks and other ruses. While not all the domains were malicious in intent, several of them were listed on eBay for sale. Donors beware. From the article: "Nearly 100 domains related to Hurricane Gustav have been registered in the past 48 hours, security experts said Sunday, some of which may be used by bogus charity and relief scams after the storm strikes the US Gulf Coast. According to television station KTAL in Shreveport, LA, the office of Louisiana's Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has warned residents of Gustav phishing attacks already in progress ... numerous domains containing the word 'gustav,' 'charity,' 'hurricane,' and 'relief' had been recently registered."
Looking at some of the news there appears to be some chap called McCain who is in Minnesota(?) who is behind all this, there doesn't appear to be much coverage in the news around Gustav but this McCain guy is so obvious that he even has sites set up for himself where people can give money directly to him. Pretty bare faced cheek. His "cover" story appears to be that there is some Republican Event going on, but I checked and Bush, Cheney and the Governator are all at home so its clearly just made up.
Seriously though the Republican party claims to be the party of God, do you think this "Act of God" is getting through to them who the big guy is backing?
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It was adorable!!!