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In case anyone is still naive enough to donate money to virtual charities
based on internet messages, consider the following article. If you feel
like donating something to help with this disaster, you have a much better
chance of your good intentions doing some actual good by donating directly
to the US Red Cross or some other charity whose correct address and
donation process you've dug up using your own research. If you respond to
an internet appeal, you have a non-zero chance of actually financing the
people behind the attack or at best some opportunist scum which is
profiting from this massive suffering. -uf
"SUSPICIOUS" WEB SITE SEEKS DONATIONS FOR ATTACK VICTIMS
A Chinese Web site that was supposedly set up to raise money for
the American Red Cross and the families of Tuesday's terrorist
attack victims has been shut down by 1ShoppingCart, an Oregon
e-commerce company, for suspicious behavior. The site sent out
e-mail requests for donations on Wednesday in which recipients
were asked to make contributions by credit card. The Web site
resides on a server leased by the Chinese company Free Web. An
e-mail sent to Free Web's Internet address was not returned,
while the telephone number supplied on the company's Internet
domain application was not operational. 1ShoppingCart sent Free
Web a request for more information; Free Web was uncommunicative,
so 1ShoppingCart closed the account on Thursday, said company
owner George Tran. Also on Thursday, the Coalition Against
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail and the SpamCon Foundation warned
that fraudulent parties were sending e-mail requests for donations
and posting similar requests on Internet bulletin boards.
(Kansas City Star Online, 13 September 2001)
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