Even in death, Osama bin Laden continues to trouble. In the Internet world, there has been a wave of phishing scams in his name designed to collect personal or financial information.

Phishing scammers use e-mail or malicious websites to solicit information by posing as a trustworthy source. The US Government’s “stop, think, connect” campaign reminds all Internet users to be vigilant whenever they’re online, and to use caution when opening e-mails that purport to show images related to bin Laden’s death. The same caution should be used with e-mails about the royal wedding or other recent major news events.

In addition to phishing, scammers may also post fake images online that can lead you to an infected website. At least two domains were found to be serving up fake antivirus rogueware called “Best Antivirus 2011” on searches for “Osama bin Laden body” on a Google image search in Spanish, according to reports.