Malaysia Against Cyber-Terrorism? Yeah Right…
Read Johan Fernandez’s report today on The STAR: Malaysia welcomes the world in fight against cyber-terrorism
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who made this announcement at the closing ceremony of the 15th World Congress on IT (WCIT 2006) here on Friday said that IMPACT was not just a Malaysian concern.
“IMPACT is conceived as a partnership – between governments, as well as between governments of the world and the international private sector.
Yeah right… what are we like crusaders of a better cyber world? Oh no… wait.. we can’t be since Malaysia has one of the worst online reputations possible when it comes to credit card fraud.
Here’s from one site:
“Some countries have very bad reputations for fraud. Your bank or credit card processor can provide a list of high-risk countries. Different sources will likely have different lists of high-risk countries. High risk countries include developing nations like Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, and Eastern European countries.”
Here’s from another:
“Most of our chargebacks come from international orders. Every order we’ve ever gotten from Malaysia has been a chargeback. So it got me thinking that it might make sense not to do business with anyone coming (or appearing to come) from Malaysia anymore.”
Here’s my 2.5 cents: Stop creating all these fancy terms like “cyber-terrorism” and start correcting the fundamental flaws in this country.
Credit card fraud, low level of Internet literacy and the overall mental attitude of Malaysians need to be addresses first.
[tags] malaysia, credit card fraud, cyber, terrorism [/tags]
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Gobala,
What a coincidence. This evening after reading an ebook about Marlon Sanders, I tried to access one of his website. It repeatedly give me
“You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”
I thought it’s some error in his part.
But after reading the article on the clickz.com that you give, hah! maybe there are still some internet marketers blocking order from Malaysia.
As the article was written in 2000, I really hope Malaysian image has improved a lot now, since we are having more & more legitimate marketer nowadays.
Malaysia Boleh!
hi gobala krishnan,
came across your website as i was researching the IMPACT conference this week. i’d like to interview you latest this Friday for our piece this weekend on NTV7 if possible.
please do call me at 012 3789 790. this is not a hoax! you can check us out at http://www.ntv7.com.my, click on all shows and you’ll find “biz briefcase”, ya?
sorry about the “soft” piece on Geneva, tho. what can i say, we all need to take a break sometimes.. lol!
thanks again and God speed!
reeza
senior producer
current affairs NTV7