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She is beautiful, nothing much to add.

You have to be proud of yourself, you have done well.

Thank God we still have civilize human among Neanderthal in that country. Save for your single act, they would have been burnt to death.

Nobody has the right to take someone's life in such barbaric way, this is 2014.

ilugunboy: Definitely....at least for now.

There will be a downward spiral in revenue of the airline until a time the accidents start fading away from memories.

It's definitely not gonna be fading in people's memory soon, guys are gonna be avoiding the airline like a plague as someone rightly said.

I really feel for Malaysia, Malaysians and Malaysia Airlines ... suffered so much tragedy this year. I hope the country, its people and airlines can survive through it all.

Melbourne University student Elaine Teoh was among the 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down on the Russian-Ukraine border

Dutch victim: Regis Crolla, pictured, was one of the 154 Dutch nationals on board the flight out of Amsterdam

Victorian real estate agent, Albert Rizk, was among the 298 passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

Stewardess: Azrina Yakob, pictured, was thought to have been working on the flight when it was shot down

Passengers board their Malaysia Airlines flight at Amsterdam.

Pilot: Eugene Choo Jin Leong was flying MH17 when it was shot down. Malaysia Airlines has described him as one of their most trusted pilots

Recently retired pathologist Roger Guard (left) and his wife Jill (right) from Toowoomba in Queensland, have also been identified from the MH17 flight

It has also been confirmed that NSW resident Sister Philomene Tiernan (centre), a teacher at eastern Sydney's Catholic girls' school in Kincoppal-Rose Bay, was also on the plane

Victim: Glenn Thomas, 49, pictured, was a media relations worker for the World Health Organisation

Child victims: Three grandchildren, Mo Maslin, 12, (left), his brother Otis, eight, (centre) and sister Evie Maslin, 10, (right) were killed on the flight along with their grandfather Nick Morris

We live in a world of hurt with sick twisted violent people all fighting over a bit of land...we will never learn!

Such is life.

ISpiksDaTroof: What has the above got to do with the fact that anyone that can think logically understands that your President is behind (maybe not all, but some of) this chaos to divert attention from other illegal acts hes carrying out with his chronies. You Africans need to learn how to start thinking critically and logically. You just displayed the typical African way of reacting emotionally, instead of rationally, above.

It has everything to do with da fact, cuz an average American don't know shït about the rest of the world, especially Africa, but they 'll be the first to run their mouth on Africans. I hate the hypocrisy of the American government, they should try stop spying on the rest of the world first, especially their so called ally ( Germany) after that, they should be focused on the moles within ( Edward Snowden ). Then they should stop fueling conflict around the world. Look what is happening in Libya, Iraq and so many countries around the globe, all because of their greed to control the world resources. American imperialism should stop, enough is enough.

Reason why American don't get it right when it comes to international diplomacy. They seems to get confuse on whose side they are, today they are supporting the Sunnis against Syria Al-Assad, tomorrow they are against the same Sunnis in Iraq ( Isis). They are neither here or there, American foreign policy is a big failure, they should just admit and shut it already.

Gorgeous looking Nigerian damsels. Me like miss Anambra.

Economic migrant

vivalavida: I knw u. Check out our monikers

That's correct. You 're my brother from another mother.

KelvinGraphics: From ur d.p i think i knw U, dat arss looks farmiliar sha but i would have to see d face xo as to confirm my thoughts.

How so? If you happen to live in Luanda or curaçao, it is possible... Other than that I don't think you know me.

KelvinGraphics: Hey, i have been looking 4 U around NL.
Wia have U been dear??

Do we know each other?

Shock and ewe revisited.

By Stuart Grudgings

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.

"Once in the country as students, there's very little effort to verify their studies," Scherer said.

An official with Malaysia's education ministry said that last year it tightened its vetting and tracking of overseas students.

"We are aware of problems with some international students, especially Nigerians," the official said.

(Additional reporting by Tim Cocks in LAGOS; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)




https://reuters/news/american-women-targeted-malaysia-becomes-internet-scam-haven-210519106.html

If this is not a penalty, what is ?

[quote author=Peppyluv][/quote]Ignore the Obdurate wankêr, noticed he is all over the forum fighting with the ladies. What a wussy!

Keep deceiving yourselves, last i checked, the article says Nigerian, not Igbo or Yoruba.

I was actually hoping to see a discuss where you guys would be debating how to curb this scourge, but here you are grown up men and ladies and supposedly educated folks trying trading blames on which ethnic group the criminal belongs to. Some of you shouldn't have gotten a formal education at all, cuz i think it is a waste. I pity you Nigerians, i really do.

See how Nigerians keep showing themselves for all the wrong reason, after you guys will be complaining how the world is against you.