Lowest of the Low Dept.

The Red Cross reports that identity theft scammers are targeting military spouses in a particularly egregious scam. They call up the spouse, identify themselves as representing the Red Cross, and say that the spouse's husband has been hurt in Iraq and evacuated to Germany. Then they ask for a bunch of personal information about the service member.

The Red Cross, of course, notes that in the real world, it never relates this kind of casualty information to anybody under any circumstances, or attempts to collect personal data about service members.

(Hat tip: Snopes.com.)