Katrina scams emerge

[PUGalicious]

Courtesy of the Drudge Report:

Wed Sep 07 2005 17:40:55 ET

Even as Americans rally to make donations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Internet is brimming with scams, come-ons and opportunistic pandering related to the relief effort in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama -- and in greater numbers and varieties than any past disaster, according to Thursday editions of the NEW YORK TIMES.

Florida's attorney general has already filed a lawsuit against a man who mounted one of the earliest networks of Web sites -- katrinahelp.com, katrinadonations.com and others -- which purported to collect donations for victims of the storm. In Missouri, a much wider constellation of Internet domains -- with names like parishdonations.com and katrinafamilies.com -- displays pictures of the flood-ravaged south and drives traffic to a single site, InternetDonations.org, a nonprofit entity with apparent links to a white supremacist group.

[Karried]

That is so sick. How do these people sleep at night?