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<p>Hurricane Harvey hit hard and especially Houston, TX got badly flooded. The death toll is rising and you can also count on low-life cyber-scum exploiting this disaster. </p><p><i>Disgusting.</i></p><p>Scammers are now using the Hurricane Harvey disaster to trick people in clicking on links, both on Facebook, Twitter and phishing emails trying to solicit charitable giving for the flood victims. Here are some examples:</p>Facebook pages dedicated to victim relief contain links to scam websites.Tweets are going out with links to charitable websites soliciting donations, but in reality included spam links or links that lead to a malware infection.Phishing emails dropping in a user's inbox asking for donations to #HurricaneHarvey Relief Fund.<p>Previous disasters have been exploited like this, and the bad guys are going at it again will all guns blazing. Be wary of anything online covering the Hurricane Harvey disaster in the following weeks.</p><p><b>I suggest you send employees, friends and family an email about this Scam Of The Week, feel free to copy/paste/edit:</b></p><p><i>"Heads-up! Bad guys are exploiting the Hurricane Harvey disaster. There are fake Facebook pages, tweets are going out with fake charity websites, and phishing emails are sent out asking for donations to #HurricaneHarvey Relief Funds. </i></p><p><i>Don't fall for any scams. If you want to make a donation, go to the website of the charity of your choice and make a donation. Type the address in your browser or use a bookmark. Do not click on any links in emails or text you might get. Whatever you see in the coming weeks about Hurricane Harvey disaster relief... THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK.</i></p><p>For KnowBe4 customers, at Monday Morning 8/28 at 10:00am we will have a new template in Current Events about "Hurricane Harvey". Send this to your employees as soon as possible to inoculate them against disaster relief scams like this.  </p><p>Warm regards, and let's stay safe out there.</p><p>Stu Sjouwerman</p><p>Founder and CEO, KnowBe4</p>

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      <p>As a Houstonian I have to say thanks for sending out the heads up Stu.  </p><p>Many people here are in need of real help and these scams take valuable resources away from natural disaster victims, those types of scams are especially scummy.</p><p>The majority of help (supply chain, logistics, personal, equipment, etc) flows through the American Red Cross.  For anyone that wants to donate in some way I suggest visiting <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.redcross.org/">http://www.redcross.org/</a> or your preferred charities directly. </p>






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      <p>It didn't take the scammers too long to exploit this event of mass suffering. Thanks Stu, now I have yet another thing to post at work tomorrow. Soon our internal Yammer may look like the KnowBe4 rss feed.</p>






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      <p>This happens every "disaster". Nothing new. Nothing to see here. As for suffering? I wont give because that is why as individuals (who like me live in Hurricane land) get INSURANCE!!!!! Been through dozens of storms. Had the house ripped clean off of the island twice in three months. Never did we feel the need to loot, beg, steal....simply call the insurance agent and let them do their job. This is not rocket algebra. <br></p><p>But, if you want to give more than your tax dollar "donations" are going to...it is not hard to find the "Real Red Cross"....<br></p>






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<p>This happens every "disaster". Nothing new. Nothing to see here. As for suffering? I wont give because that is why as individuals (who like me live in Hurricane land) get INSURANCE!!!!! Been through dozens of storms. Had the house ripped clean off of the island twice in three months. Never did we feel the need to loot, beg, steal....simply call the insurance agent and let them do their job. This is not rocket algebra. <br></p>
<p>But, if you want to give more than your tax dollar "donations" are going to...it is not hard to find the "Real Red Cross"....<br></p>
</blockquote><p>Everyone along the Gulf Coast from south Texas to south Florida are usually at least somewhat prepared to handle things that get thrown at them.  But during every storm there are those that cannot take care of themselves without assistance, poor, elderly, disabled, people who are surprised when their property that has never flooded now does due to obstruction of water ways or new construction.  People have homes damaged, etc.  Not everything can be foreseen and planned for.  It's not like we can send countless millions of people somewhere else every time a storm enter the gulf.</p><p>In those events local people, churches and charities like the Red Cross provide assistance.  Sometimes people that have never needed it before need help.  I've been good (so far) like you, I have been able to plan for and react in time.  I've never had to rely on help from others, but not everyone is that lucky.  </p><p>Gulf Coast people tend to help their neighbors, but those that are not close by and cannot lend a hand often times can only offer financial help for example, and although I've not had to rely on them I do thank those in other parts of the country and around the world that do provide whatever assistance they can.</p><p>Insurance is something <i>everyone should have</i>, but even being insured didn't do anything for me living a little over six weeks without power after Ike came through for example.</p>






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      <p>Great idea. I just sent this to all of my users. People who use disasters like this to scam people out of their money deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.</p>






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      <p>Maybe its just me, but I don't understand why there is not a law with severe penalties when people are convicted of fraud during disasters such as this.</p><p>OK, and maybe a key to the city for a day, for those who volunteer to help.</p>






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<p>that's pretty low class in general, I think scammers should be dealt with with extreme prejudice, scammers of all sorts, but most importantly within our government. </p>
</blockquote><p>I dont get why during a storm it is any "<i>worse</i>" a crime than any other time. That is one of my biggest issues with our ignorant "<i>Justice</i>" system in the US...for instance, if you have drugs on you that is a "<i>crime</i>", but if you are 1000' from a school-church-park...that is a "<i>worse</i>" crime? Um, no. But, let the "legal cash grab" continue....</p><p>All I know is I am sick of watching it on the news (and it is the only thing on). <br></p>






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<p>You are right - but, those in facilities have the liability of the facility to fault. Now, you show me people in tornadoes and earthquakes...that is a whole other story (and to a point, on occasion forest fires). <br></p>
<p>The fact is that the Govt is going to step in and pay for this with my over 40%+ of my federal income taxes...I just hope that this does not turn into another Katrina blame fest of criminal activities. Then again, Texas has pretty liberal 2nd Ammd. laws...not a place to screw around at :-) <br></p>
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      This is sad news, thank you for the heads up. Anything that can be done to get relief to those truly in need, and help shut down scammers, is a good deed.<br><br>Brian Krebs posted on this today as well: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/beware-of-hurricane-harvey-relief-scams/">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/beware-of-hurricane-harvey-relief-scams/</a><br>






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      <p>Its so sad that people would take advantage of people in their time of need like in tragedy, but scumbags will.   Most of my users know better than to be taken, with all the Knowbe4 training they are making it a contest to see who can spot things first.<br></p>






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      <p>It really is sad to think people try to cash in on others misfortune.  Most of these people will have nothing left after the storm passes, and people who do not live in the area try to do their best to help, only to find out the money will never get to the people it was intended for.  We setup this as a phishing campaign, thanks to KnowBe4, to see if anyone took the bait.  So far, no one clicked on it!  Our users are thinking before they are clicking, and all thanks to KnowBe4!!</p>






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      <p>We too sent out a KnowBe4 phishing campaign on Harvey. It is from the Salvation Army, but the sender's domain is saIvatlon-army.com. Yes, it is spelled wrong and hopefully my trained users will see that social engineering red flag first.</p>






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      <p>Saddens me that people take advantage of situations.   I hope no one fell for this. <br></p>






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