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Earthquake disaster that occurred in Haiti has been knocking on the door of the generous hearts to reach out for help. However, donors should be careful not to fall trap online fraud.
Yes, cyber criminals are often trying to find opportunities in the middle of hardship. They are often 'free ride' the events which attract public attention, such as disasters or the death of a prominent public figure, to launch a hoax.
Therefore, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) called on all people who want to channel the aid should be careful when going to channel it, not to become victims of online scams that impersonate as a channel to aid victims of Haiti.
A similar appeal submitted by the security software company Symantec. These security companies have reported seeing the emergence of spam and phishing e-mails a disaster profiteer Haiti, only within 24-48 hours after the disaster.
Does not stop there, according to Joris Evers of McAfee security software, cyberspace criminals also manipulate search engines so that users are interested to click on a malicious site that emerged from the search results.
"A number of searches related to Haiti dangerous web pages that try to steal personal data or install malicious code on your PC," Evers said, as quoted from MSNBC, Friday (15/1/2010).
Therefore Evers mengajurkan for internet users who want to deliver aid to earthquake victims visiting Haiti should be a trusted charitable and not recommended to open links in an e-mail, although e-mail looks convincing. http://www.detikinet.com/read/2010/01/15/101308/1279035/323/waspada-penipu-online-boncengi-gempa-haiti
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