[Vision2020] Another reason to give, but very carefully

[Jennifer McFarland]

Wayne,
 
Thank you for this post.  It has come to our attention at the Sheriff's
Office that there are more than 2,000 false "donation" websites collecting
money for victims.  Rather than actually collecting money for victims, the
website hosts are collecting money for personal gain.  Please be careful
about sending money to any organization that doesn't have a known reputation
for honest practices.  And, of course, if you think you have been the victim
of a scam, contact your local law enforcement agency.
 
On a lighter note, Officer Marie Miller and the Moscow Police Department
filled a U-Haul trailer yesterday with boxes and boxes of donated
toiletries, clothes, and food donated by members of our community.  Way to
go, Marie and Palouse area residents!
 
Take care,
Jennifer 
 

Detective Jennifer L. McFarland
Latah County Sheriff's Office
Public Information Officer
PO Box 8068
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-2216
Fax (208) 883-2281

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
***Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

 

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Subject: [Vision2020] Another reason to give, but very carefully



Source: Washington Post


 


Missouri Attorney General To Sue Katrina Phisher


The Missouri attorney general today filed civil charges against an
<http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/09/katrinarelated_.html>
Internet scam artist I wrote about last Thursday who was running a hub of
Web sites that claimed to be accepting donations on behalf of Hurricane
Katrina relief efforts.

Today a Missouri federal judge signed a temporary restraining order against
Frank Weltner, 64, of St. Louis, Mo., that prohibits him from accepting
donations through the slew of Web sites he registered with names like
www.donate-katrina.com, www.clergydonations.com, and
www.internetdonations.org. Weltner is also the owner of JewWatch.com, a
decidedly anti-Semitic Web site. 

According to the Missouri AG's complaint, Weltner conveniently "omitted the
fact that the ultimate company behind the Defendants' websites support white
supremacy and that the money raised from the consumers will be only for use
to help white victims of the hurricane."

The state is seeking to shutter the fake donation site and to freeze the
assets of Internet Donations Inc., the nonprofit entity Weltner registered
the day after our first blog post about him (and after he was already
accepting donations through his site). The New York Times also
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07cnd-fraud.html
?hp&ex=1126152000&en=4b4e5e934468535c&ei=5094&partner=homepage> ran a story
on the Missouri legal action in on its Web site today.

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