And sure enough, International newspapers have reported on cases of Internet fraud popping up all over the Web, in the aftermath of the New Orleans floods.
It seems that `Internet fundis` of all calibres are trying their hand at defrauding already distraught Americans out of their money, mainly by encouraging them to make donation towards bogus relief funds.
These sites are offering to act as deposit boxes for money, supposedly to be re-directed to the Red Cross. The result, apart from mass fraud, is that people are becoming less willing to help.
It seems natural disasters have become the biggest target for fraudsters to put their expertise to the test.
After the tsunami disaster, which marked a kind of loss of innocence in modern times, some of the many funds that started up as a result were legitimate, but most were not, and people willing to help fell prey to this.
The issue of Internet fraud has, for many years, been high on the agendas of most of the world`s governments, but it seems that not much headway has been made in dealing with this issue. Or else, fraudsters are much more tenacious than the world thinks, and people just don`t learn.
Though I`m not one to beat a dog when it`s down, I do feel that disaster-prone America could employ the `once-bitten-twice-shy` rule when addressing this issue.
To be fair, I must say the US government and Pentagon have been working overtime to try and curb the wave of fraud that keeps hitting the Yanks, as they deal with one disaster after another. Let`s hope they start looking after themselves as well.
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