Hurricane Fraud

I was listening to NPR this morning. There was a little piece on fraud after Katrina. There are, of course, people pretending to be victims and there will be shoddy construction at high prices as after every weather disaster. But I thought the following scams were notable - Red Cross employees were giving pin numbers to friends and relatives to make claims for funds and people are posing as FEMA employees to harvest personal information for identity theft. People are poops.

By the way, a couple local frauds I have observed are (1)a checker at K-Mart in Glendive always shorts the customer $1 whenever she needs to make change. (I suppose she just keeps a daily running count and I've no doubt her till comes out correctly and most people don't check their change) (2) a checker at our local grocery store runs just some of the items across the device so that her friends get lots of groceries free (3) a coin dealer misrepresenting the grades of coins by a phony "old" appraisal (4)a car dealer that lies about repairs done (5)all the volunteers at the thrift shop who take home any valuable items. I have no doubt all have reasonable (to their Christian minds) justification for their actions.