It didn’t take long for the lowliest of low-life scammers to try to earn a buck on the tsunami catastrophe in South East Asia. The spam mail below is sent from a hijacked DSL connected computer in Thailand. The domain (rescueteam.com) is registered in the US, and has a history of being used for spam and fraud, but it is also used by legitimate users.
It is listed among many other red-flagged domains at
http://linkamerica.com/fraud.html
http://www.mall.freehosting.net/fraud.htm
The phone number in the mail goes to Britain, there is no website, and it just isn’t an international aid organisation.
It’s nothing but fraud. And it’s pretty horrible.
envelope-from=victims_earthquake@fastermail.com
Reply-To: victims_earthquake@rescueteam.comFOUNDATION FOR VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE .
PO Box 381, Cheltenham, Glos,
GL50 1YN 0121 6326460.
~ Tel-+ 44 7031943574.Good Day,
The Foundation for Victims of Flood and Earthquake aid is aware of recent disaster strike in Asia. We are alerting humanitarians to emergencies. The Foundation for Victims of Flood and Earthquake is dedicated to the benefit of this victims who through no fault of their own have been afflicted with serious pain, mental suffering,family and property loss.Thus this programme is specially intended for helping victims of unwanted disaster. About 4,500 died in Indonesia, and 4,6000 along the southern coasts of India. So far 198 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh. Around 750,000 people were displaced in South Asian towns.
Our Rescue workers found at least 150 bodies in the Muslim village of Muttur, and another 10 were found in the town of Trincomalee which went under several feet of sea water. The Foundation for Victims of Flood and Earthquake aid is a human-focused agency whose mission is to ensure the sustained well-being of earthquake and flood victims,their families and communities through holistic and integrated community-based development programs worldwide.
Our Foundation for victims ”To Be in Time with Help”realizes Program under patronage professor Zbigniew Religa, famous Polish cardiologist.Foundation supports in the grounds of contracts:- more than 14000 victims which are waiting for complicated operations, for expensive treatment around asia.
Please be so kind to send us a reply of you want to save a life. It’s
Samaritans’ Week. Help Samaritans help others. Call +447031943574 or
email-: victims_earthquake@rescueteam.com