FEMA: How To Help Hurricane Victims and Fraud alert

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01 FEMA: How To Help Hurricane Victims (For your members!)

Rather than following links from unknown sites, the Federal

Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the official Hurricane

Katrina Resources list of all the voluntary organizations seeking cash

donations specifically to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina in Gulf

Coast states. Select the organization and make donations directly to

that organization with confidence your donation will immediately help

the Katrina relief efforts. This web page also has connections for

those who wish to volunteer direct help in person, however they

caution not to go directly to the disaster areas without assignment

from one of the organizations.

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease_print.fema?id=18473

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02 BEWARE: Katrina Fraud Spam (For your members!)

Unless your filters are hiding your spam, you've probably seen

the same ugly spams we picked up in our spam traps last Tuesday

and Wednesday. Oddly enough none have been seen since then.

Capitalizing on the the aftermath of hurricane Katrina is

probably one of the lowest spam schemes.

DO NOT reply to any email urging you to donate to Katrina relief

through an unrecognized web site. In fact, DO NOT OPEN email asking

for donations. Period. Make donations through your preferred

organization or those approved organizations in the link above.

That way, your donations gets to the relief effort sooner,

without being handled through other layers.