Phishing has hit a new low. The website set up to collect money for the Tsunami disaster, by the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) has been copied.

The fraudsters direct people via an email. The subject of the email is "Urgent Tsunami Earthquake Appeal". Within the email is the URL of the fake one.

The real site is at www.dec.org.uk.

Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit has been informed, by the DEC. The DEC told the BBC that the emails started appearing about 2 days after the site was launched, a spokeswoman told the BBC.

Notably the fake one seems to be a copy of an old version. The bad guys are thought to have set the site up from Romania.

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