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Within hours of last week's earthquake in Haiti, charities were scrambling to respond to the catastrophe. So too were cyber-criminals, who were looking to exploit unwitting Internet users seeking to donate to the relief effort. It has gotten so bad, the FBI and others have issued warnings to the public.

The country that brings you daily e-mail offers from esteemed princes asking for your bank account information so they can send you millions of dollars in exchange for a few thousand of your dollars, is trying to re-brand itself. The nation known for corruption, online fraud and as a drug transit...