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Watch out for the Weather Crooks

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Computerworld is reporting that over 100 domains have been registered in the past 48 hours relating to hurricane Gustav.

Although not all will have nefarious purposes, security experts are warning people to be careful of phishing scams and bogus charity scams that might emerge as relief operations go into full swing.

It's a sad fact that there are people in this world prepared to steal from the needy. Let's not make their 'job' easy...

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