London Bombing Donation Scam…
This just in from Radio Australia:
The Australian Red Cross is moving to thwart a bogus online fund-raising appeal for victims of the London bombings.
It has been alerted to emails in Australia purporting to be from the British Red Cross, seeking donations for the London Mayor’s Relief Fund.
The Chief Executive of the Australian Red Cross, Robert Tickner, says they have no agreement in place with either organisation in regards to the London bombings.“At this stage it’s fairly small, but we want to nip this right in the bud before it goes any further, because it is a hoax, it’s a scam,” he said.
“People [are] trying to commit a fraud here and it must be stopped.”
The very sketchy details which are currently in the public domain do not make it clear if the e-mail is a reworked 419 [Advanced Fee Fraud] scam, similar to the ones we saw [and I blogged about] back in December 2004 after the Asian Tsunami, or whether it is a Phishing scam.
There is a real ‘London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund’ which has been setup by the London Mayor and it can be found on the ‘real’ Red Cross site here.
I’ll update this blog entry when more data becomes available….
Links:
The Bristish Red Cross
The Australian Red Cross They have a warning about the scam on their site.
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