A local was arrested for collecting large sum of money for tsunami victims and keeping it. Incidentally, I went to Doctors Without Borders web site, and they are well fixed for their tsunami fund, and funnelling extra money into a general emergency fund.

On the other hand I got a piece of spam from a lady in South Africa who claims to be raising money for orphans. It's the standard Nigerian Spam letter with orphans. She called herself Mrs. Elizabeth George. Forewarned, as the octopus said, is forearmed.