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Phishers Luring People With Fake Charity Sites
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-08-18
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Charity scams are nothing new. I seem to recall a story a long time ago about a fake Salvation Army Santa stealing money from generous people.
It should come as no shock that similar crimes are happening on the internet, exploiting charitable generosity. It's a sad world.
Take for example a 20-year-old man who was recently busted in connection to a phishing site claiming to be a Hurricane Katrina charity. Sophos has the story on this:
Jovany Desir of Miami, Florida, has been accused by a federal grand jury in in Western Pennsylvania of creating a bogus American Red Cross website, as well as phony banking, auction and online payment sites, in an attempt to steal names, addresses, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers and other information.
According to prosecutors, 20-year-old Desir packaged the websites into phishing kits and sold them for approximately $150 each to other potential scammers. Bogus websites said to have been created by Desir between July and October 2005 included ones associated with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, eBay, PayPal, and two Canadian financial organizations - Banque Nationale and Desjardins Credit Union. Prosecutors claim that the fake Banque Nationale website was visited 8500 times by users apparently hunting for the real site.
Sophos has a screenshot of the guilty site at their web site.
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About the Author:
Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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