The warnings of criminal prosecution authorities of the Tsunami Charity Fraud
Thanks to private donations to charities in Giessen, say police officers scam artists claim to represent aid post-tsunami are organizations with e-mails and phone calls to try to steal donations and donors swipe ‘identities.
Several states and agencies were monitoring warnings in recent days, recalling that a tip of generosity for tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean has opened the door for data thieves want the grip of American philanthropy.
“We do not want someone, charities and supports victims of there being a victim of identity theft, now,” said Bob Breeden, head, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Center crime.
Agency alerted the inhabitants officials Tuesday, after learning an e-mail purportedly sent by a British group called “The Foundation for victims of floods and earthquakes and another request for aid for Tsunami Disaster Fund Help”.
“With sympathy and difficult burden of heart, we appeal to your sense of generosity for the support by donating any amount that you can provide, the latter group wrote in an e-mail. Florida officials said e-mails of suspects and grounds of fraud calls for donations in the past.
Breeden said the agency had no complaints, but rather “the curve”, according to potential fraud, a British study that the man had pleaded guilty to sending fake e-mails to say that man They had been missing loves dead in the tsunami.
Florida, “said civil servant could be the answer of its intentions incorrectly, donations and” phishing “. In these systems, e-mails are sent to recipients in the animation personal information such as credit cards and social insurance numbers, addresses and other information, it could at risk of identity fraud.
Similar have been warnings in Alabama, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island and Washington State. The Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau have also weighed with advice on how to evaluate properly, charitable organizations before making a donation.
If you have a Google search on tsunami and contribute, you come with more than 60000 sites, North Dakota said Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. “Many of them are new territories, and they are not well established. People have to be careful. ”
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s Office encourages people on donations directly to charities rather than the management of telemarketers, a large portion of the proceeds they raise.
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