Tsunami “charity” e-mail
by Andrew Macpherson on Mar.15, 2011, under E-Mail hosting, Operations
I’ve just had an e-mail arrive in my SPAM folder that looks extremely dangerous.
It purports to be from the British Red Cross appealing for Japan, but
- The Red Cross were on the radio yesterday explaining that their priority is currently the Libyan refugee crisis.
- The email originated in China.
- The payment method was Moneybookers (an alarm bell all by itself)
- The payee was a personal account
- The Payee should have been the Red Cross
- No off-line donation methods listed, such as bank transfers, telephone with credit card, or local collections.
We are tagging these as SPAM, but do watch out
March 15th, 2011 on 19:38
We just donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society. Hope everyone can help in small or large ways…