Japanese Disaster Prompts Warning of Online Scams

Security researchers say that hackers are using the unfolding disaster in Japan by appealing to people’s sense of altruism -- or, in some cases, voyeurism -- by sending spam email that contain links laden with malicious code. Some of the links are supposed to be of footage of the earthquake or tsunami, some purport to be from relief organizations, while others claim that recipients have inherited $12 million from victims in Japan.