Scammers Move From Ebola Phishing to Fundraising

Scammers routinely try to take advantage of humanitarian disasters to get people to open phishing emails, or to donate money to fake organizations. This month, they combined the two approaches, sending out approximately 700,000 spam emails asking people to donate money to fight Ebola through an Indiegogo fundraiser, according to a report by Silicon Valley-based security firm Barracuda Networks Inc.

This is the first time Barracuda has seen spam email used to solicit donations for an Indiegogo campaign, said Barracuda's senior data scientist Luis Chapetti.