From CNN :money

Additionally, the AG’s office reported last week that two men posing as Salvation Army volunteers had been arrested for obtaining personal information from thousands of Louisiana police officers by convincing them that they were eligible for debit vouchers worth $5,000 each.

“We fear that the motivation was identity theft but we’re hoping that we stopped it in time,” Wartelle said, adding that the AG’s office is bracing itself for more complaints in the weeks ahead.

Part of the problem is the willingness among aid officials and citizens to accept that a person is a legitimate victim of the hurricane without proper proof, said Naomi Lefkovitz, staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.

“Agencies want to help people and get them on their feet as fast as possible,” she said. “There will undoubtedly be some (identity thieves) that fall through the cracks.”

She said the FTC is working with the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Service through a task force to identify and prosecute identity thieves.

But identity theft was a difficult problem to solve even before the chaos of the two storms. And now with thousands of citizens roaming the land without proper documentation and identification, the task is even more daunting.