Haiti Earthquake Beware of Dirty Scammers

Haiti Earthquake Scam

Dirty Dirty Dirty

How anyone has the gaul to exploite the huge catastrophe that Haiti suffers folllowing the earthquake is beyond us.

It has been reported that bogus websites have been set up to con people into donating to Haiti earthquake appeals.

Scams have evolved since the days of Katrina so that Black Hat search engine manipulation is used to promote dodgy sites, Twitter tag-poisoning and even paid search engine placement ads may be brought into play to increase traffic flowing towards fraudulent domains.

Calls to take the sites that are fraudualantly using the Haiti earthquake to con donations from the public into amking down if they are clearly not associated with recognisable charities have been ignored although spokesman from isc commented that they are "keeping an eye on them" and hope to be able to protect.

Charity events

There has been specualtion that bogus charity events will be organised to make the sites and the fake charities appear more credible.

If you want to avoid dirty scams stick with taking par in charity events and donating to high profile organisation to make your donations for Haiti Earthquake.

Dirty Gesture to Swiss Vote Against Minarets

Banning minarets. If that isn't one of the most odd government actions I've ever heard of, it's close.

In November, Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets, the towerlike structures that adorn mosques. A week or so later, in an apparent act of defiance, a new minaret unexpectedly sprang up.

The minaret is attached to the warehouse of a shoe store called Pomp It Up, which is part of a Swiss chain. It was erected by the chain's owner, Guillaume Morand, who fashioned it out of plastic and wood and attached it to a chimney. The new minaret, nearly 20 feet high and illuminated at night, is clearly visible from the main highway connecting Lausanne and Geneva.

Just a way to attract new clientale to sell more shoes. Good marketing gimmick, but muslims in Switzerland won't see it that way. They are not equipped to analyse the ways of capitalists.

Send Mr. Morond to Saudi or flight to Dubai to build a plastic steeple on his chimney..... and see what's going to happen to him.

Yes, he'd be in a lot of trouble. But then Saudi Arabia is not a secular democracy where human rights are supposed to be protected. We expect bigotry and disrespect for rights from a authoritarian monarchy, but a modern Western nation is supposed to be a different story.

I think there needs to be a poster showing a minaret that people can put up on their walls. Switzerland ought to be plastered with them. Switzerland should have minaret calendars and little chocolate minarets and key chains with minarets on them. Swiss people ought to wear minaret lapel pins and ties and handkerchiefs with images of minarets on them.