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...scam, which is dragged out over several months, asks the recipient to pay assorted fees, supposedly to help cover the banking transaction and legal costs. Eventually, the victim is asked to travel to Nigeria or a nearby country to complete the transaction...
Following through on the scheme can be hazardous. Scambusters.org, an Internet watchdog group, says that an American was murdered in Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing a 4-1-9 scam. U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reports show that another victim was confronted by two Nigerians with automatic weapons, and was forced to turn over $4,000 in traveler's checks before receiving permission to leave the country. Another victim lost over $400,000 before reporting the fraud...
...Backed by Catholic and evangelical church groups, the President is crusading for a "moral recovery" after the two-year regime of Estrada, 63, an ex-film star who bragged about his fondness for women and booze. Live Show is the first victim in this crusade, and many newspapers are calling it censorship. And worries of a nationwide bowdlerization campaign were exacerbated by Macapagal-Arroyo's banning of a film she hadn't even seen. One columnist, the Manila Standard's Alex Magno, wrote: "We cannot allow that noble vision of a 'moral society' to be taken hostage by those...
According to RAD Instructor and HUPD Officer Theresa Smith, the majority of sexual violence at Harvard is committed by acquaintances of the victim and thus often goes unreported...
...these promise to assuage our longing for a simple answer to a temptingly simple question: Who is the bad guy here? Images of war have long helped sway opinion: the summary execution of a Viet Cong by a South Vietnamese police chief defined that war's casual cruelty. But victim photographs have usually better served the outgunned, like Iraqis leading media tours of purportedly civilian sites bombed during the Gulf War. For the overdog, the device risks showing weakness: pictures of American POWs in Vietnam undermined rather than galvanized support at home. But the Israelis, who in the first intifadeh...