Facebook removes ads from controversial pages to avoid boycott

Facebook has announced a major revamp of its advertising systems in an attempt to deal with concerns about offensive content.

There will now be new restrictions on where adverts appear on the site.

Marks and Spencer and BSkyB were among companies to suspend advertising after complaints that adverts had been placed on pages with offensive material, reports the BBC. The social network now plans to remove any advertising from many of its pages.

Facebook's move follows complaints about a Sky advert promoting an M&S voucher. The advert was placed on a Facebook page called "cute and gay boys". The page featured photographs of teenage boys.

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Dell’s Malaysia site hacked by “supporter” of Bangladeshi workers

US computer maker Dell's Malaysian website was hacked today by unidentified parties, who voiced their support for Bangladeshi workers working at its manufacturing plant in Penang.

Dell was not available for comment but reports of the hacking spread fast on social media and the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has also been alerted.

On the popular lowyat.net forum, users were abuzz when news of the 2pm hacking broke out and the provocative message left on the Dell website.

The hacking is believed to have been done by Tigerm@te who claimed to be a Bangladeshi hacker.

The provocative message left was "Hello Malaysia, you think you are more advanced than us? Respect our workers, we will respect you! Running it since 2007".

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Hairstylist falls victim for second time with RM200,000 scam

Another experience of credit card fraud came back to haunt hairstylist Philip Chan when he received a call out of the blue 17 years later to repay a supposed RM200,000 debt.

Chan, 43, said he had lodged a complaint in 1996 when he discovered a RM4,000 charge on his monthly credit card statement.

“After investigations, the officer told me they believed I was a victim of fraud and closed the case. Since then, I have not used credit cards and no longer have an account with that financial institution,” he told reporters at the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department here yesterday.

However, Chan said he received a call on June 2 from a woman who initially claimed to be from the bank but later said she was from the bank's authorised debt collection agency.

He said she had asked him about the credit card charge in 1996 and informed him that his outstanding payment had now ballooned to RM200,000.

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Teen: Brother sold nude pictures of me

Deep concern: Chong showing a picture of him talking to Wang during the press conference at Wisma MCA.


A 17-year-old girl who was sexually abused by her elder brother for eight years has been further traumatised when her brother sold lewd pictures of her online.

Wang (not her real name) and her 20-year-old brother have been living with relatives in Ipoh since their parents divorced 15 years ago.

Her ordeal started when she was nine.

“It started with him touching and fondling me and it progressively got worse from there,” she said over the phone at a press conference held by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong at his office in Wisma MCA.

Cyber criminals scammed victims of RM16m in Q1

Love scams and fraudulent online purchases ranked highest among the 403 cases of cyber crimes reported within the first three months of the year, incurring losses of RM16 million.

Bukit Aman Cyber Crime and Multimedia Criminal Investigation officer ASP Mohd Syafiq Jinuin Abdullah said the frequency of cyber crime cases had increased steadily, where about 6,586 reports of such cases were lodged last year with RM34 million incurred in losses compared with 6,238 cases involving RM18 million in 2010.

He said online love scams usually involved African nationals whose love affairs with local women saw the latter being duped and losing their lifetime-savings to their paramours in extreme cases.

“A study showed that women who fall prey to the scams are single-mothers, unmarried women and women with marital problems,” he said at a Consumerism Forum entitled “Internet Fraud Victimised or Greed” held by the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry, here today.

On fraudulent online purchases, he said, it was commonly reported by those who bought goods via mudah.my, e-lelong and alibaba.com websites.