Hello, welcome to the Monday, October 10th, 2016 edition of the Sands and its Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Orich, and the time recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Probably not a big surprise, but we got our first Hurricane Matthew-related fishing attempt

pretty much before the hurricane actually hit

Florida itself. This particular attempt actually also played a little bit of

new spin on this in claiming that it came from a credit card processing company

Stripe and telling users that because of systems at Stripe

were affected by the hurricane, they should please turn off the two-factor authentication and

then it would redirect the victim to a fishing site asking them for their stripe credentials.

Now I must say that the stripe actually reacted really well to this and if you did happen to fall for this fish and then were redirected to the actual stripe site. That's what this fishing form did.

You were warned by Stripe that you just came from a fishing site and, well, should contact

them promptly.

Overall, I would say that this particular fish wasn't done very well, so doubt a lot of people

fell for it.

Also, Google blocked it pretty quickly in its safe browsing system.

So if you clicked on the link after Google did that, then you got the famous red warning

screen in your browser.

If you see any other fishing attempts or any other scams around this hurricane,

please let us know in the past we have seen a lot of, for example, fake donation sites and such.

But not so much in the last few disasters.

I think a lot of the state attorney generals and such went after these fake

donation sites very quickly.

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