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Police in the Philippines have arrested 58 people involved in an Internet extortion network. Theyare accused of posting fake profiles to socialnetwork sites, luring¹ mostly elderly men intoexposing themselves in video chats which thenfilmed and used to blackmail² them for money.

Basically what's been going on here is that criminals have now taken advantage of technologyand in particularly, social networking site where they are creating multiple fake profiles tobefriend as many people as possible. And the aim was of this is to encourage the person thatbefriended into having sex over the Internet in front of the webcam and unknown to theperson this is filmed and recorded it. And then she used a blackmail further on. Many of thesefirms are so well-organized like a traditional business with the staff that they have got. Sothey really are very well-organized. And it enables them to commit crime all over the worldrather than traditionally where they may have been confined to their own country.

And these are mostly men, it seems, to think they are striking up kind of interval³ relationshipover the Internet with a woman. It turns out that they are not. What kind of money isextorted from them?

It varies anything from a few hundred pounds through to few thousand dollars. And it'swhatever they think that they can afford. It's very similar and very specialized⁴ to some of theother form we've seen in particular countries, some countries where teams have got togetherand they are specialized in skimming cards. Others have specialized in other types of fraud.I guess it's possibly also the fact that Philippines does well in tourist from westernized countries to the Philippines.

The US Secretary of States John Kerry says the South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed topeace talks aimed at ending the conflict there. Mr. Kerry was speaking after the talks with thepresident in the capital Juba.

I've told President Kiir that the choices that both he and the opposition⁵ face are stark⁶ and clear and that the unspeakable human costs that we have seen over the course of last month and which could even grow if they fail to sit down are unacceptable to the global community.

1 luring   

吸引，引诱（lure的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
• Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她：有危险，要出错儿，这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。

2 blackmail   

n.讹诈，敲诈，勒索，胁迫，恫吓

参考例句：

• She demanded ＄1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
• The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。

3 interval   

n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息

参考例句：

• The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
• There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。

4 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。

5 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

6 stark   

adj.荒凉的；严酷的；完全的；adv.完全地

参考例句：

• The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
• He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。