As you may noticed from the odd blogposts here and there, scammers are firmly on the "exploit the Japanese disaster" bandwagon and anything is a target for them at this point. It's becoming a little overwhelming to keep up with the posts I'm seeing across the security blogs as more scams come to light (I've made six posts myself today alone not including this one), so I thought it might be useful to throw together a short reference post with examples of the dubious techniques being used and how to avoid falling victim. If you think you have family members who may click on things or donate to sites they probably shouldn't, consider gently pointing them in this direction.
