Philippines Scams & Warnings

Archive for July, 2009

It is great to see some new scams being reported here. I have spoken to dozens of men who have been scammed online by this new wave of chatscam Filipinas. Many of them are Bayut or Bakla, transexuals who are vicious, nasty and very cunning. Others are real women but have realised they can make a very lucrative living this way, playing on our generosity and loneliness.

First of all, everyone in the Philippines survived before they met you and they will survive once you are gone. It is not your place in their lives to keep them in cash and cosmetics!

Secondly, internet access costs as little as P10 an hour in some places. The most I have ever seen is P30 an hour in an upscale mall. The US$ is nearly P50, so we are talking between a dime and a quarter to chat for an hour. You send fifty bucks by Western Union and they can either chat for 200 or more hours or they can feed their family for a month on rice and dried fish, the staple diet.

Third, the good ones are too proud to ask for money in any way. My wife was in hospital with her father efore we were married. He was having serious stomach operations and she and her mom and sister were his ‘watchers’. The nurses do nothing, the doctors do little else and the security guard won’t let the watchers leave to buy food and medicines outside the hospital if the bill hasn’t been paid up to date. Don’t believe me? Your perogative but I speak the truth. Well as I said, I had to wring this out of my wife to be and force her to accept some cash to help out, but barely enough for them to buy some food, she refused all help withe the huge hospital bill and she even had to endure the ignominy of passing the hat around at her old school! But she did that rather than ask me for money. Her and her Mom applied to a charity for funding and even tried to mortgage their home, borrowed from an uncle who works overseas and still wouldn’t accept a centavo from me.

There are plenty of them over there but of course the scammers know how to get your attention and push in. Test them and find a good one. My eBook ‘Filipina 101′ tells you how, what to write and ask and so on. If it doesn’t save you the cover price of just US$29.99 you have 30 days to get a full refund and yes, some guys scam me and get the refund even though they loved the eBook!

I chatted to a lot of filipina ladies, but when it came to money I just deleted them,but one night in a Filipina  chat site, one young lady got the best of me.  we went to yahoo to chat

we opened up our web cams and started talking, her name on her id was cristy_ann, we started a nice repore then she started to work on me, knowing I was planning to marry a filipian lady , she gave me her phone number to call her, but I didnt have international calling on my phone, we met just about the same time every night my time, she had all the right words to say to me. and she used them against me knowing what I was looking for,  she promised she wasn’t a scammer, and wasn’t like other ladies that try to scam men, she wanted me to send her money for the cafe’.this was after a few days of chatting. so I asked my friend who just moved to the Philippines in April of this year after he met his new wife on a Filipina chat room, I asked him while he was talking to her from the states if he ever sent her money to chat he said yes, so I said what the heck, I told cristy_ann I needed her real name and address to send the money by Western Union. and most people don’t use there given in yahoo chat, she told me her name was Romelyn , still at this point I had no reason to doubt her, so I sent her $45 dollars. lets say she took me for a three months ride chatting with her every night. then came the love words, and believe me she was good doing it playing on my emotions ex. I love you,it would be a honor to marry you, wish you can come here over the Christmas Holidays to visit me and my family, get the point….I guess you can say I was love struck.

she even brought her two younger sisters on cam to see me, she would say why would I scamm you if I gave you my phone number and brought my sisters to see me on cam..  I’ll be honest she got me for some more money, over the three months, and I was planning to move there the comming year 09″ to get married, met her on June 5,08 til September 15, 08′ was the last time she ever chatted and called me, I told my friend in the Philippnes I know I just got scammed, so his wife looked on Friendster after I gave her the name Romelyn, plus his wife knew what she looked like from the pic I sent her,behold Romelyn wasn’t the girl I met as cristy_ann,, both Romelyn, and cristy ann were two different sisters, they both had web sites on Friendster . so they were both working on me at the same time, I never met Romelyn before, but this finding didnt come in time til after she stopped chatting and calling me,,she change the simms card on her phone, so I caouldn’t call her to find out what happend that she stopped chatting, remember this all took placebrfore I found friendster, I think she started to realize towards the end , I started to pick up on the scamm but was to late for me the damage was done,, my friends wife try texting her and e-mailling her to at least write me and apologize, but we all know that wasnt going to happen, so after looking at over 100 pics she had on her site, I relized she never was at a cafe’ from the start, she was in a house In surigao del sur,Tagbina which was the address she gave me to wire the money. but thwere is more to this story, after my head cleared up somewhat.  I did doubt her in the beginning, but she must have learned these scamm from someone because she played me to the end.tonight after two weks of not hearing frome her, I get on my computer after work and saw a off-line message, the ID I didnt know so I cliked on the message and it read”How is life now im back after two weeks you surprised hehehehe”. she is using a different ID now on yahoo to scamm other men, but when I put the ID that she used to send the off-line messages yahoo didn’t reconized the name, like I said she and her sisters are good at this, so I am at the point how can I believe what another Filipina lady tells me even if she doesnt ask for money, all the powerful words cristy used on me would make any man believe what she was telling them ” dont leave me” I love you so much, I miss you everynight, my mom said as long as im happy she is happy, like I said lots of woman asked for money but I never sent it, but crity ann, got my money, Western Union wants to hear from me about this scam, along with the FBI, so I will let you good people know what happends next, since I have the addresses, pictures, yahoo IM she sent,and all the control numbers for the time I sent her money, she did a good head job on me to be honest,,,live and learn

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Have been victimized by a few girls from the Philippines. In particular, those who have fake, free profiles from website Filipinaheart.com. I made several complaints regarding woman who place fake pictures and profiles to attract attention to which the website responds with a refusal to remove such people from the site.  Recently, I was in correspondence with one JANICE KASPA who I would speak to over the phone.  She refused to go on webcam so I decided to send her money to purchase a webcam. She would take the money and would claim the webcam doesnt work.  I believed her. After two months I decided I would want to meet her during my next visit to the Philippines. Claiming she was from General Santos City, I sent her money thru Western Union to purchase a plane ticket. A few hours after she took the money, I spoke to her and she had a story of how she was just robbed and her purse stolen. She claimed to be at the police station, so I asked to speak to a police officer. She hung up the phone. Never heard from her again.  I went back on Filipinaheart, and sure enough a new profile was created using her friends name Laila Mae Lapang, using same fake pictures she emailed me. Beware of these SCAMMERS. No webcam, dont even bother with them.

I am a 30 year old American and this is how I was scammed in the Philippines.

On my first day in Manila I went to Intramuros to sightsee.  While there I went to Manila Cathedral.  While inside Manila Cathedral I met two very nice respectable girls that invited me to lunch with their family in China town.  So I met their family.  There aunts, one uncle and the boyfriend of one of the girls.  While here they informed me that they were traveling as well and were from Baguio.  They invited me to join them as they had a minivan and were going to the kind of places that I wanted to see.  So foolishly I accepted.  Two days later they picked me up at my hotel and we set off to Tagaytay.  We saw the sights during the day and at night we drank and told jokes and had a good old time.

Now at some point, after I had been drinking a bit it was suggested I make a run to an ATM since in Northern Luzon it can hard to find ATMs and to make sure my card worked.  So we went to an ATM at about 9:30 at night.  Now mind you it was a real bank (Allied Bank) and a real ATM.  But what I probably didn’t notice was that their was a device their to clone my card and capture my pin number.  At some point after that I believe I was drugged since I don’t remember much more of the night and I wasn’t that drunk.

The next day I woke up and was fine and we proceeded with our trip.  We drove north stopping the town of San Jose.  Again we had a good time and all seemed well.  We sang karaoke and had a few beers.  The next morning however they claimed that they had a car problem and showed me what appeared to be some sort of leak in the car.  They said they would drop me off in Banaue and come back for me the next day.  They also asked if I could spare a 1000 pesos for the return trip to get me.  And of course I paid.

Upon my next ATM visit a few days later I am told that I have insufficient funds.  I figure this is some sort of error and just use another card and think little of it.  It isn’t until I return home that I confirm what has happened to me and they instead of it being and error my bank account really has been run dry.  They ran 19 transactions at the max on the first night.  Waited 2 days (the day when I was dropped off) and then ran 7 more until my account was done.

In hindsight, despite how warm and caring they seemed, there were small signs that could be seen.  First, nobody on their trip had a camera or took pictures.  When we went to sites most people just stayed behind.  Second, I was never clear as to what everyone’s relationship was and nobody could seem to adequately explain it.  Third, despite the fact that they are planning to be on the road with you for over a week everyone has a really small bag.   The last thing let me know for sure that it was them is that at some point, probably while I was drugged, they deleted all photos of themselves from my camera.

So word to the wise, be very careful.  Not all scams involve poor pretty women or buying things.  I hope that someone benefits from my experience.  If you have any comments or questions I’d be very interested.

Beware of Mary Gean Loquere who is a scammer.  She was on Date in Asia as MGEAN but after I emailed some of her friends on Friendster to embarass her she closed that profile.  I believe she is now registered as mg but she knows my email address so I have not checked it.  Her email address is: mejyn_l@yahoo.com.  Do not send her any money.