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MUSCAT DAILY BLOWS SCAM WIDEOPEN.This time, it wasn’t the exiled daughter of a recently deceased Nigerian Prince, left clutching a massivepile of black money, desperate to give you a dollop of cash to assist her in banking the money somewherewhere the military coup who overthrew her father, would not have their filthy tentacles writhing deepwithin the bank - of your choice - where the money is to be deposited. Oh gee, if only you could just makethings easier and send her your paypal email account details, then at least she could by a good used copyof ‘Scamming For Dummies’ on eBay.This time, wicked armchair robbers targeted Omanis intent on getting their kids scholarships to the ‘yewess-of-aye’.Simply send US$200 to lodge your application, and be one of the lucky 40, where a worldof scholarship possibilities worth thousands will open up for you, magically! By combining academia, asuperpower and clever marketing, this is an extremely strong scam. If you got duped this time there is noshame on you, but be on your guard next time.The daring scammers even sent out PR to bolster their credibility. What is particularly troubling about thisscam is the fact that several publications here in Oman did their usual trick and printed the scammer’spress release drivel. Verbatim.No surprises there. What could the alternative be? Oh hang on a minute, are we suggesting media shouldactually send someone out to meet the people behind the PR, find a story; an interesting, gripping angleperhaps and then write the information all on their own? That would just rob from valuable facebook,gmail, and twitter time.Congratulations to Richard Thomas and Muscat Daily. Any wonder why he hasn’t sent me a facebookfriend request, he’s too busy toppling international organised crime syndicates! KJHPAKISTANI CRICKETER SAYS “NOFAT CHICKS”News has it that Pakistan’s former cricket captain Shoaib Malik is all set to tie the knotwith India’s tennis court diva Sania Mirza. Now, under normal circumstances that would begreat. In fact that would be fantastic, but there is a slight problem; apparently he’s alreadymarried to a certain ‘Miss Siddiqui’ who claims that the cricketer had courted her and thendumped her because she was overweight.“I can’t believe this girl,” referring to Mirza, “She has seen what happened to my daughter— it was all over the news. Despite this she got involved with this man,” said Farisa,Siddiqui’s mother.However, 23-year-old Mirza is looking forward to her big wedding and her parents shareher sentiments. “My wedding is going to be the biggest day of my life. I have been in themedia glare for too long and would appreciate a little privacy at this personal moment.”Most would agree that there can’t be smoke without fire. Others are hoping this could be anew chapter in mending relations between India and Pakistan. CEDisaster at MassacreSitePoland was in shock this week as President Lech Kaczynskiand many leading political, academic and military figureswere killed in a plane crash on late Saturday morning. Thedelegation was travelling to Smoleksk when the plane crashed,to commemorate the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre whenthousands of Poles were murdered by Soviet Union troops,70 years ago. The plane crashed when attempting to land atSmolensk airport; amongst the thick fog the plane missed therunway and hit a group of trees killing everyone onboard.President Lech Kaczynski was the leader and founder of theright-wing Law and Justice Party along with his identical twinbrother Jaroslaw. The ‘Twins Party’, as the party would alsobe known (or maybe it was just a phrase coined by our Polishphotographer), fought campaigns with a mixture of grittynationalism and extreme conservatism, which saw relationsbetween Poland and Russia sour. Messages of condolencescame in from across the world. Spoczywajcie wspokoju. PM10 11