Italian police warn of fraudsters cashing in on quake solidarity
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LONDON - Italian police have warned the public of fraudsters attempting to cash in on an outpouring of sympathy over a deadly earthquake after the discovery of a bogus charity claiming to raise funds for victims of last month's disaster.
Almost 300 people were killed and thousands left homeless by a powerful tremor that hit central Italy on Aug. 24, prompting an international wave of solidarity.
But not all charitable efforts appeared to be genuine, police said, reporting that detectives had identified a web page set up by a purported charity to sell T-shirts depicting the devastated centre of Amatrice, one of the quake-hit towns.
