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Filipino ‘Transgenders’ Give Being Shanghaied New Meaning!
We came across this the other day and felt we had to include it if only because so many of the Chat Cam scammers are ‘Bakla’. (Tagalog) ‘Bayut’ (Visayan), aka ‘Transgender’. Also called ‘Bini Boys’ from the days when they cruised Mabini Street in Ermita well after dark, they lack the grace and good looks of the Thai Katoeys but are none the less lethal when they turn nasty.
From the Inquirer Global Nation Website:
By Cynthia Balana
Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 03:40:00 06/24/2009
MANILA, Philippines—They pose as prostitutes, drug their clients and then rob them.
This was how Vice President Noli de Castro on Tuesday described six supposedly “transgender” Filipinos who had been arrested for robbery in Shanghai, China.
Quoting a report from Philippine Consul General to Shanghai Aileen Mendiola-Rau, De Castro said five of the six arrested were now in jail, while the other one had been released after he turned state witness pending investigation of their cases.
Filipino psychiatrist Gary Canlas has said the term “transgender” refers to people who are assigned gender at birth based on their genitalia but who feel it’s an inaccurate identification of themselves.
“The alleged modus operandi of these Pinoys, reportedly transgenders, was that they would pose as prostitutes, drug their clients and rob them of their money or valuables,” De Castro said.
De Castro, presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers, said he was alarmed by the consulate’s report about rising incidence of both Filipina and transgender prostitutes in China.
“This kind of incidents just put in a bad light the good name of our OFWs who are known worldwide for their professionalism and exemplary work ethic,” De Castro said in an interview.
De Castro recalled that several Filipino gays are also in jail in China on prostitution and theft charges. They were arrested following complaints from male expatriates that they were robbed by their Filipino gay partners in hotels or motels.
De Castro said he had asked the Philippine Embassy in China to make sure these OFWs would be extended legal assistance.
Ed Malaya, spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs, said the embassy was looking into the case and would give the Filipinos legal assistance.
Earlier, 67 Filipinos were arrested for reportedly hosting a “gay fashion show” at a private Philippine Independence Day party in Riyadh on June 13.
De Castro said that Vice Consul to Riyadh Roussel Reyes had told him it was not the first time Filipino homosexuals had had problems with Saudi laws as nearly 50 other Filipinos had been jailed for similar violations.
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How’s Your Poker Face?
I know several foreigners who have fallen for the card game scam. Basically you are befriended by a Filipino male or males. They may have a female ‘cousin’ with them to soften your suspicions but the Filipina will be a girlfriend of one of the gang. They will take you somewhere off the beaten track to play cards, maybe for fun or they might suggest a few pesos bet. Peso’s? Play money! Maybe but not if you lose enough of them, then they add up to real money!
You will be given drinks to loosen you up and help you relax and trust them. You will enjoy a winning streak and then they will pounce. Someone will suggest upping the stakes and before you know it, you are being escorted to an ATM by a couple of really heavy looking cut throats to draw out as much as you can.
If your gambling debts are high enough they will insist on holding your passport, air ticket and taking you to the ATM again when more money can be accessed. These guys don’t mess around, they will hurt you, maybe even kill you if they feel like it.
So why do foreigners fall for this? Why do men gamble in the first place? I don’t play cards, I only ever bet on myself and then I bet everything I have. But gambling is greed and greed is what makes every scam and con work. That get something for nothing possibility is too much for some to resist. Well, I reckon you deserve everything you get. The simple solution is don’t gamble and especially don’t gamble with Filipinos you barely might know.
ATIVAN GANGS ARE BACK!
Some years ago the tourist areas in Manila were targeted by ‘Ativan Gangs’, so named because of the drug they used to knock out unsuspecting victims. They would befriend a foreigner, usually spotted at an ATM or leaving his hotel and use a ruse such as being the hotel security officer on his day off or the customs officer at the airport that processed him through.
They usually have a female with them and she is very friendly and attentive, perhaps with a sister or cousin. The males are always relatives to make the girls seem available, even if only subliminally. One friend of mine, a very intelligent and well travelled middle aged man was a victim. He is neither gullible nor stupid yet he fell for their scam. He got into a car with them on the premise of seeing the sights, guided by locals etc big mistake number one. He was offered some orange juice from a can that was already open, big mistake number two.
He has no recollection of anything that happened next except waking up in an alleyway, stark naked and totally cleaned out. Some passing Filipinos helped him find something to cover himself and called an ambulance as well as the police. Basically he is lucky he woke up at all. Some victims are murdered and their bodies dumped.
If you want to make friends with Filipino males, you should pick who you befriend, not the other way around. There are reports of a gang back in Manila using a similar SOP to the Ativan gangs of the 1990s and early 2000’s.
Warning about Veronica Baldoza Galit
Hello I am Chris Bass. I have been scammed as well.I met ” Nikka on line as many of us do. She was working in a bar at the time this was in 2001, I heard her tales of losing her job then going to work for a shop whereher boss tried to have sex withher , losing bracelets watches being robbed and like a fool i believed her.Why? I had fallen in love. Now I fell so hard that i agreed to meet herin the Philippines in the Manila area and i stayed atthe copacabana hotel. She even got me to move to s cheaper one which was still a good hotel . called lonely hearts. It saved me alot of money
This helped draw me to trust her. I spend two weeks getting to know her and chose to marry her . Her family was glad for that .Well , we filed and i went thru all the motions. and we were maried. I did not know that in HongKong to work in bars or shops you must be married to a local resident.
I was happily married for three days then my visa ran out. They told mei had to go home now and aply for another and i believed them. I went home filed for agreen card for Veronica and waited, Files were lost andi fought with imigration about it, refiled forms paid moremoney timeand again. all this time sending 500 usd a monthto my wife.I saw heron theinternet as i senther a web cam for theplace she rented a computer from to seeme. I believed that crap. Well, it turns out thatVereonica wentto Catubig and pissed away every dom dollar i sent on building a house for her mother and brother to live in, then went back to the philippines to knock down her sisters boyfriends house and rebuilt a two story house in Perpetual village 6 mambig foour , lot 10 bacoor cavite
used my moneyto do it. Now i sent money religeously and believed my wife to be in the phil waiting dutifully for me. As i have learned she left 10 months later after giving birth to our son and giving the baby up to her sister Marilyn galit. And ten months afeter i left the phil she left to goto work again in HongKong. Back to her husband.
I did not learn this until after nearly two years. I ran a small company in the usa making money for our future. When her sister let the cat out of the bag and mentioned her indian hubby or her chinese hubby i got worried and confronted her , she denied of course, i kept supporting her until decidedto see what was true. i stopped sending meoney, she stopped communicationg altogether,Searches forher were in vain
her sister even moved away from Caviteas i learned. Veronica is on the internet as kissable 2004 in wqquary bay on filipina friend finder, and on filipina heart .com she is “jelly” memebr number 199 199 and cvlaims to be single in Wan Chai area of Hongkong. I am here now searching for her
You see guys if you marry a pinay, you are married for life. Thereis no divorce in the philippines. Even if you divorce in another country, in the philippines you are still married \ It cost ten thousand USDollars to get an anullment in the philippines and likely the court
Keep ‘Em Coming!
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!
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