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The consultant got to know the man called, William Bobby Madoff, through Yahoo messenger for almost a year.
Although she has never met this man who is from a foreign country, she had fallen deeply in love with him.
Taking advantage of the situation, William Bobby Madoff persuaded her to pose naked via webcam.
This is not the only thing about this William Bobby Madoff. In April last year, William told the consultant to expect a package containing valuables such as a mobile phone, a laptop and some jewellery.
Then a week later, someone claiming to be from the billing department called and asked her to pay RM3,880 for delivery of the package.
When she contacted her boyfriend to clarify about this he said he had paid the charges in his country and was unaware of other charges to pay in Malaysia. However, he urged her to pay for the charges.
She has since reported all this to the police.
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1. Auction fraud. Sure I love cheap stuff on eBay as much as the next guy, but that ’73 Collectors Edition Elvis Plate you’re bidding on might not be that great of a deal. Fake and stolen merchandise aren’t uncommon; even a Certificate of Authenticity doesn’t necessarily mean anything. As eBay Scam Watch puts it, “If a seller is willing to misrepresent a fake item as real, then what is the big deal of throwing in an authentic looking certificate?” Another scam is the “shill” scam: A seller wanting to drive up the price on his auction may bid himself or have his friends bid, just to make you pay more. If you notice a repeat bidder on a seller’s auction history, something’s probably up. One more tip: Never wire money directly to a seller—it’s almost impossible to retrieve the money if your purchase isn’t shipped.
This fortunately is not very widespread in Malaysia as very few Malaysians purchase stuff online. Or I might be wrong ? Has anyone here purchased anything on Lelong.Com or Ebay Malaysia ?
4. Charity fraud. Perhaps the most unfortunate scams in recent years have come in the wake of tragedies like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami. When such tragedies occur, scammers take advantage of the fact that many people who are willing to help don’t know where to donate their money. Never trust an email asking for charitable contributions before verifying the credibility of the organization. Never open attached images or files, as they may be viruses. And never provide them your personal information. If you want to help, you should preferably donate directly to big-name organizations like the Red Cross or Amnesty International, which always organize direct disaster relief funds.
This is yet another evergreen scam. It is still carried out in real life by "volunteers" approaching random people at restaurants seeking donations for a variety of causes.
5. Murder for hire fraud. One of the most twisted Internet scams it the so-called “hit man scam.” The victim is contacted and told that he/she is to be assassinated or a loved one will be kidnapped, unless the recipient wires several thousand dollars to the sender of the email. In another version the “hit man” claims to be a law enforcement official who has recently discovered the recipient’s information in a captured murderer’s pocket. The recipient is then asked to contact the “authorities” to help with the investigation. Even if you feel someone is really out to get you, if you ever receive one of these emails, contact the police—immediately.
Although I've not heard of this scam done via the internet in Malaysia, I've read that in Kuala Lumpur scammers call the victims direcly claiming to be gangsters, hitmen, court officials etc, asking for "kau tim" money (a settlement sum) to "settle" an alleged matter.
I've just decided to give twitter, the micro-blogging platform, a second try after reading how useful it can be for making friends and sharing information. So far, so good...I'm getting the hang of it. Fantastic tool. There are many ways twitter can help you in real life.
The actress, 25, has played a role in a movie made by a well known film director.
Apparently, when the police raided the room at about 3.30am, some of those in party were already high on drugs.The police found various types of alcoholic drinks, condoms and drugs at hotel room including ketamine, cocaine and syabu.
They then exchange photographs and virtual love letters for some time before the casanovas, usually claiming to be rich hunks from Britain and the Middle East, tell their victims they want to get them a real gift as a way of expressing their commitment.
In this day and age, it is disheartening to note that Malaysian women still fall for this "rich hunk" ploy. They truly believe that rich hunks have noting better to do, and have no other access to meeting women, other than meeting Malaysian women through online social media sites like Facebook.The only catch is that the women would have to bank in a substantial amount of money, supposedly into the account of a local forwarding company, as processing fee for the parcel containing the cash to be sent to Malaysia.
This is obviously a variation to the typical "cash in advance" Nigerian scam.When the woman begins to feel suspicious and questions her “boyfriend,” the e-mail stops.
Police say many women around the country, some holding respectable jobs like doctors and managers, have been victims of such scams. Thousands of ringgit is believed to have been lost.
Just because they are doctors and managers do not mean they are geniuses. I noticed that those with tertiary education are more easily duped compared to the average joes. Further, these women are the most lonely.
One example is a case in Johor where a human resource manager in her 30s lost more than RM30,000.
She befriended a person, claiming to be from Britain, via a social networking site about a month ago.Yeah, right ! How dumb and desperate can someone be to spend RM30,000 on someone she hasn't even met in person.
She met him on Facebook, communicates with him for one month and she's either head over heels in love with this cyber lover or desperate to receive the £50,000 "gift".
The next day, the woman got a call from a person, claiming to be from a forwarding company, saying she needed to bank in RM4,000 for the parcel to be delivered.
They continued to ask her for money – totalling RM30,000 – over a few days, giving various excuses including exchange rate and other expenses.
The woman suspected something amiss and when she questioned her boyfriend, he did not reply her e-mail.
She only suspected that she's been duped after the con man decided to flee ? Unbelievable.Bukit Aman commercial crime investigations director Comm Datuk Koh Hong Sun confirmed there were many cases of cheating not just via the Internet but also through SMSes.
He advised people, especially women, to be careful when asked to transfer money to those they meet online.
“We are checking to see whether local syndicates are working with overseas ones,” he said.
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I was told that most Malaysians have already migrated from the "old school" Hotmail or Yahoo Mail to having Gmail accounts.
There are new finding that say you are rich or poor because of your genes. Read this article from Now Public taken from the BBC.The neo-cortex frontal lobes have long been associated with cognitive thinking because of its prominence in humans and almost non-existence in the lower animals
The issue of Nature~vs~ Nurture has always been a controversial issue in academic Psychology and it remains to be seen whether the difference is to do with environmental factors, such as quality of nutrition, prenatal care and levels of intellectual stimulation in the home, or whether the cause is genetic.Let the debate continue!
Normal nine and 10-year-olds from rich and poor backgrounds had differing electrical activity in a part of the brain linked to problem solving.
The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience study was described as a "wake-up call" about the impact of deprivation.
A UK researcher said it could shed light on early brain development.
The 26 children in the study, conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, were measured using an electroencephalograph (EEG), which measured activity in the "prefrontal cortex" of the brain.
Half were from low income homes, and half from high income families.
During the test, an image the children had not been briefed to expect was flashed onto a screen, and their brain responses were measured.
Those from lower income families showed a lower prefrontal cortex response to it than those from wealthier households.
We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens
Prof Thomas Boyce
University of California Berkeley
Dr Mark Kishiyama, one of the researchers, said: "The low socioeconomic kids were not detecting or processing the visual stimuli as well - they were not getting that extra boost from the prefrontal cortex."
Since the children were, in health terms, normal in every way, the researchers suspected that "stressful environments" created by low socioeconomic status might be to blame.
Previous studies have suggested that children in low-income families are spoken to far less - on average hearing 30 million fewer words by the age of four.
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I disagree with this report albeit it being based on "science". If fact, its findings goes contrary to conventional evidence. You don't have to be a scientist to know that there is no correlation between being rich and being intelligent enough to create wealth.
We know that there are a lot of rich kids who are not particularly intelligent, neither are there many poor kids who are stupid. I think the rich become richer because of opportunities presented to them by society and the poor become poorer because of the opposite reason. It has nothing much to do with intelligence.
Lets do a simple yet self evident test to show that the above report is wrong (probably based on flawed data).
If you were to study the list super rich in the Forbes list, you'd observe 2 kinds of rich people - those who became rich through their own efforts and those who inherited their wealth.
Those who inherited their wealth have to be excluded from our test, as inheriting wealth does not show that someone is more intelligent than others; it is just a fortunate random order of birth.
Therefore, for more accurate results, we must only study those who became rich through their own efforts. In analysing these people, you'll easily see that more often than not they do not come from rich families, in fact, a large number of them come from very humble backgrounds.
Further, it is ironic that the above article starts with a quote from The Great Gatsby. In the novel, the hero Gatsby did not inherit his wealth neither was he from a rich family. He was a self made man.
What do you think ? Please post your comments.
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