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Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Revolva(m): 12:40pm On Jul 26, 2014
Omo chop dey weller colect dem collect dem...no gurkin money full net o...hahha I wan laff die....here readin commentz... Guys must ryde range must buy house na...pop champagne...na live da good life n establish business na as bank no gree give boyz loan....well it takes two to tangle so the sender of d cash n d pertertrator is involve so if dey catch our naija broda also go yankee go arrest d woman also gullible idiots...omo match . Com don suffer o
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by BodyKiss(m): 1:39pm On Jul 26, 2014
EMEKA1MILLION: Hahahahaha hahaha........ Big ups to the hustlers....
Chop them...
Finish dem



..... grin grin
We are the bad guys of the Internet world....
We make our presence felt anywhere we go.....
We are Africans...
We are Nigerians....
We go to their houses, kill their husbands, enslave their wife's, rape their daughters, Bury their sons alive Nd leave with their valuables....
Maybe this is our way of paying back to the westerners what they did to our fathers....
They squeeze us of our resources and give our fathers mirrors, worn clothes, oversized shoes, shaving sticks... Etc....
Now the table Has turned....
Its our time to prey on their ignorance.... undecided angry angry

Silly excuse coming from a f00l. When they start killing you f00ls like the Indians did, then you id10ts will start calling them racists. 1di0ts.
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by unmask: 1:39pm On Jul 26, 2014
Smartsyn: Am not trying to be rude, but maybe it's because a typical American woman is stoopid, their clave for black dick is what make them very gullible..

Even with this report, they'll still always fall for scammer wit the hope that she'll get laid..
you were not rude, just stoopid
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Skido360: 1:51pm On Jul 26, 2014
can the whites cheat jazz ( juju )
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by ojigbijigbi: 2:06pm On Jul 26, 2014
iamord: yo!! Holla jare!!
. I see you Brah, if your ready holler
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by OLAJADON: 2:12pm On Jul 26, 2014
[quote author=pmarz]This article is disturbing. When will this stop.


American women targeted as Malaysia becomes Internet scam haven: U.S.


KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Hundreds of American women are being ensnared by Internet scammers based in Malaysia, with some losing over a quarter of a million dollars, as the country becomes an epicenter for online crime perpetrated by Africans, U.S. officials say.


The mostly Nigerian conmen, who enter Malaysia on student visas, take advantage of the country's good Internet infrastructure to prey on lonely, middle-aged women, wooing them on dating websites before swindling their savings, they said.

The scams are more sophisticated than most Nigeria-based operations - which most Internet users have experienced at some time either via email or advertising - helped by Malaysia's advanced banking system, which allows perpetrators to quickly set up accounts and receive international transfers.

U.S. officials say Malaysian police lack the resources and expertise to tackle the problem and have yet to launch a single prosecution of a case involving a U.S. victim.

Malaysian police were reported by local media last December as saying that the number of Internet scam cases more than doubled in 2013 with total losses of more than $11 million. A total of 476 Africans had been apprehended for suspected involvement, the report said.

The Malaysian police and the Nigerian embassy in Kuala Lumpur did not respond to Reuters' request for comment. A spokesman for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said he was not aware of scammers operating in Malaysia, but added they were known to have international networks.

Tim Scherer, consul general at the U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur, told Reuters that complaints about such scams now made up more than 80 percent of inquiries to duty officers at the mission, with a dozen new cases reported every week.

Citizens of Australia, Canada and Europe had also been targeted, he said.

"These are not rich widows who are being preyed on, these are middle-class Americans who don't have this kind of money to spare," he said. "It can really transform their lives in a very terrible way."

The U.S. embassy estimates that U.S. victims are losing several million dollars a year, with two women in the past 12 months losing more than $250,000 each. There are more than 600 cases a year, and the amount lost by each victim averages in the tens of thousands of dollars, it said.

The actual figure of total losses is probably far higher, Scherer said, because many victims are too embarrassed to come forward or do not know who to contact. He said the scammers were highly sophisticated, often grooming victims for months and using convincing techniques such as forging letters purportedly from the U.S. ambassador in Malaysia.

FAKE ROMANCE

Large teams of scammers typically trawl dating or Christian websites and contact middle-aged women, the U.S. officials said. They pretend to be a Western man who then gets into legal or business difficulties in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

One U.S. victim told Reuters she transferred a total of$260,000 to Malaysia, where the man who claimed to love her said he was being prevented from returning to the United States by Malaysian bureaucracy - which required hefty payments to negotiate.

The 59-year-old widow from Phoenix, Arizona, who declined to be identified, said she had gone heavily into debt to make the payments to "Charles", and even flew to Malaysia in March to meet him. He never showed up, but a European woman claiming to be his lawyer managed to bilk another $25,000 out of the woman before she returned to Arizona.

Another victim, a women in her late 50s in the eastern United States, said she sent her life savings of $300,000 over two months to a Malaysia-based "American" man she met on dating site Match.com, three years after her husband died.

"I felt like I was in love with this man and we'd be moving forward with a life together real soon," she told Reuters.

Match.com did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. Along with other major U.S.-based dating sites, it features prominent warnings about scammers, specifically telling users to be wary of people who say they are Americans based abroad.

STUDENT SCAM

The conmen have exploited Malaysia's drive to become a global education hub, securing student visas to attend college, the U.S. officials said.

Malaysia has pursued a policy of attracting international students for more than a decade, allowing dozens of foreign colleges to set up Malaysian campuses.

Scherer said it was likely that many of the Nigerians in Malaysia were not genuine students. As of March, there were 9,146 Nigerians on student visas in Malaysia, the education ministry said, out of 123,000 overseas students in total.



Dis americans neva stil won wise, after wetin dey don hear about scammers.
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by technophile(m): 3:35pm On Jul 26, 2014
scottpirlo24:



you are indeed crazy....... do you know that Russians do scam more than Nigeria can ever do , Do you know that Pakistan does that more than Nigeria will ever dream of but the fact remains that they push everything to naija , I have be around Europe Asia and America now , i will tell you this , oyibo deserve everything they get from scam cos they are the most wicked pple to deal with, have you ever asked yourself why Isreal no dey pay for scam like that ..............Mr man go and sit down cos if i do paper for you now to travel , next thing is Scam ..... An honest man called a fellow man a thief because the acclaimed honest man never had a good opportunity to steal

do you know that Russians do scam more than Nigeria can ever do , Do you know that Pakistan does that more than Nigeria will ever dream of but the fact remains that they push everything to naija
[/quote]
Really??
oyibo deserve everything they get from scam cos they are the most wicked pple to deal with
Even the poor Australian woman that was murdered in cold in her hotel room and scammed of $90,000 by ur kind?

Mr man go and sit down cos if i do paper for you now to travel , next thing is Scam
From ur comment above I can deduce that you are a Yoruba guy, one of the sayings of our land state that:- Everyday is for the thief, a day is for the owner. Your days are numbered.

An honest man called a fellow man a thief because the acclaimed honest man never had a good opportunity to steal
Well thank God I'm an honest man, few friends of mine happened to be yahoo guys, they've tried to lure me in times without number, but an honest man will always be an honest man, even when he had a good opportunity to steal.
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Nobody: 3:47pm On Jul 26, 2014
American women are the most greedy. They make the best victims.

But cmon, where are they getting these money. Someone Holla me the secret na.
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by dejavski(m): 4:19pm On Jul 26, 2014
They will soon blame the FG for this one
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by haryomikun(m): 5:55pm On Jul 26, 2014
Khalessi: 90% of the scams are conducted by Nigerian "students" there.
Don't say 90percent o. If yu go †̥Φ Benin and Warri u'll know at least 65 percent cumz 4rm 9ja
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Revolva(m): 6:50pm On Jul 26, 2014
Omo I like dis post mee sef go collect o I don see formats oo hey casting ...hey d more dem dey publicize the more boiz dey re enforce ...format n dey collect
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by queensenglish91: 7:27pm On Jul 26, 2014
EMEKA1MILLION: Hahahahaha hahaha........ Big ups to the hustlers....
Chop them...
Finish dem



..... grin grin
We are the bad guys of the Internet world....
We make our presence felt anywhere we go.....
We are Africans...
We are Nigerians....
We go to their houses, kill their husbands, enslave their wife's, rape their daughters, Bury their sons alive Nd leave with their valuables....
Maybe this is our way of paying back to the westerners what they did to our fathers....
They squeeze us of our resources and give our fathers mirrors, worn clothes, oversized shoes, shaving sticks... Etc....
Now the table Has turned....
Its our time to prey on their ignorance.... undecided angry angry
e.diot
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by 190theclown: 11:28pm On Jul 26, 2014
Slynonny: All Americans to be on alert.
Am coming for you guys.
I wil make world wide headline as the first naija boy to hit $1 Million bucks from gee work.
Wait until i finish my fortification and juju preparation.
Una go hear am.

Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by lawrenceunaa: 11:53pm On Jul 26, 2014
hydeka: bad for africa's image. But why do more women keep falling for the same scam? They should learn from other people's experiences.
experience is the best teacher, so dey wan learn from experience cos the experienced learnt from experience
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Nobody: 6:23am On Jul 27, 2014
Mynd44: No wonder my High school mate Femi wan go Malaysia for his masters by fire by force.....
grincheesygrincheesygrincheesygrincheesygrincheesy
the article is very true. I know some dudes who are into this shiiiit and have left Nigeria for Malaysia.
Some in India.

In fact, the exodus started 3 years ago and not many of them still stay in Nigeria.
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by Nobody: 10:46pm On Jul 27, 2014
Ilekere: American women are the most greedy. They make the best victims.

But cmon, where are they getting these money. Someone Holla me the secret na.

Hello.....
Re: American Women Targeted As Malaysia Becomes Internet Scam Haven: U.S. by scottpirlo24: 12:14pm On Jul 30, 2014
never say that , Am proudly an Igbo Dude representing 042
technophile:

do you know that Russians do scam more than Nigeria can ever do , Do you know that Pakistan does that more than Nigeria will ever dream of but the fact remains that they push everything to naija

Really??
oyibo deserve everything they get from scam cos they are the most wicked pple to deal with
Even the poor Australian woman that was murdered in cold in her hotel room and scammed of $90,000 by ur kind?

Mr man go and sit down cos if i do paper for you now to travel , next thing is Scam

From ur comment above I can deduce that you are a Yoruba guy, one of the sayings of our land state that:- Everyday is for the thief, a day is for the owner. Your days are numbered.

An honest man called a fellow man a thief because the acclaimed honest man never had a good opportunity to steal

Well thank God I'm an honest man, few friends of mine happened to be yahoo guys, they've tried to lure me in times without number, but an honest man will always be an honest man, even when he had a good opportunity to steal.

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