A local newspaper reported that a new breed of email scam is exploiting the generosity of people who have rushed online to danate money to relief effort an internet watchdog warned last night.
One of spams is modification of nigerian spam letters but other spam is more sophisticated in which potential donors receive an email luring them into making donation to a fake website(thus getting credit card information).
here is a link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...384091,00.html
This is not the only tsunami con.
On 29th DEC and 2nd jan(i am not quite sure about date) there were two different ads in a national english news daily here.
First one was a society for childerns asking donations for por childrens and other was a organisation asking people to donate for people ravaged in tsunami.
One thing was common in those two ads they asked people to fill there credit card information in that orm and post it to a peticular address.
I mailed to editor asking for a clerification there was no reply.I am not sure whether that is a con or not but i am concerned with whether editor of that newspaper(times of india bombay edition)tried to confirm validity of those org's.
Anyways i didn't get any spam mails personally but there were lots of people and so called organisation(that i never heard about) approaching almost every house in every city of my country seeking a donation.

Well personally i decided to donate in prime minister relief fund because it is tax free and there are other benefits too like no postal fee is required to send the money or D D and no charges on demand draft and affcourse that money will be in safe hands.
And have a look at this te most disgusting email con of all time.
http://www.techspot.com/story16690.html