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<H3>Source: Washington Post</H3>
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<H3>Missouri Attorney General To Sue Katrina Phisher</H3>
<P>The Missouri attorney general today filed civil charges against <A
href="http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/09/katrinarelated_.html">an
Internet scam artist I wrote about last Thursday</A> who was running a hub of
Web sites that claimed to be accepting donations on behalf of Hurricane Katrina
relief efforts.</P>
<P>Today a Missouri federal judge signed a temporary restraining order against
<STRONG>Frank Weltner</STRONG>, 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 <STRONG>JewWatch.com</STRONG>, a decidedly
anti-Semitic Web site. </P>
<P>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."</P>
<P>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 <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07cnd-fraud.html?hp&ex=1126152000&en=4b4e5e934468535c&ei=5094&partner=homepage">also
ran a story on the Missouri legal action</A> in on its Web site
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