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+639081090174

+639182525834

Rowena Dano , nickname Weng Dano

421 A. Luna st. Majayjay Laguna

http://profiles.friendster.com/51315650

Ok here we go, met this lovely girl in June 2009 on Filipinahearth. We started chatting and things developed fast, too fast for my taste , in a matter of 1 month she wanted to get married and have children, I told her that I would not propose to her before I have met her on Phil. She seemed very caring and tenderspoken and I began to get strong feelings for here.

Here is an E-mail from July 26`th

Sendt: 26. juli 2009 05:02

Til: M….

Emne: hi m….

i would like to thank you for all the inspiration thoughts that you made everyday you give me a straight everday hope that almost gone to find a better person who can accept me being what i am as in return of your kindness i will do my best being a good wife to you happy now hehhehehe i just finish my laundery very tired anyway i wanna here the music that you said to me oky see you later

blah….blah…blah…..blah…..

In september I agreed upon visiting her in Christmas to see if this relation was to be!!

Until I bought the tickets and booked the hotel we chatted many hours pr week and exchanged many E-mails, now it seems her eagerness for me was declining , I complaint over this and told her that communication were essential for building a relationship. She told me she was busy on work and it was hard for her to find time to communicate so much!! I found it strange!! She had got her prey!!

Now all the sickness began, she got salmonella-poisening I saw her on webcam and she looked sick, 3 weeks and she didn´t get better and she told me she couldn´t afford to buy the stronge medicin and since I cared for her I sent her 80$ for medicin, this was the first time money was between us, she didn´t ask for money but I offered to Xoom her and I did.

November her sister got sick and I took the bait with line and sinker and sent 3000 pesos for medicine…… yeah I know I was stupid but the trap was set good!!

She began to be aggressiv whenever I phoned her telling that she was busy, trying to survive in a tough society, she had told me she was working as a Microfinancial Consultant and I began to be suspicious, but everytime I expressed my doubts she convinced me again and things were back to normal!!

Now Christmas was approaching and things didn´t get better and luckely my feelings for her slowly began to deminish and I was very close not to go and I told her that in the phone, and again she showed her good talent as an actor and convinced me again!!

December 19 I flew out of Greenland to Copenhagen, and via Amsterdam I came to Manila december 22´nd. Went to sleep on the hotel and slept 20 hours!!

Weng Dano arrived december 23´rd in the evening, good looking but she was COLD!!!! The first thing she asked for were here christmas-present, I knew that she wanted a touch-phone so I brought her an expensive phone, she unwrapped it and and she didn´t even say thank you , I asked her if there were a little present for me but nope!!

Christmas evening, THE GRANDE FINALE!

We went to Manila Zoo but returned home early coz I was still suffering from severe jetlag and I was tired, we talked good and laughed a lot, she was very occupied with her new cell and I slept some hours. We ordered a good dinner from the hotel and had a good time, but Man I was in for a surprise!!

Her cell kept on ringing and she was texting all the time, suddenly she began to scream and cry , the tears running from her eyes, JESUS,WHAT AN ACTRESS!

She told me a firecracker has burnt her house down and that she had lost everything, only owned what was in her luggage and she need to go to Majayjay the next day to find a new place to live, I tried to comfort her and gave her money to a cab to Majayjay and back so we could spent the rest of the holiday together, 18000 pesos including money for a new bed, she went off december 25´th in the morning and I haven´t seen her since, She doesn´t answer the phone or mails anymore, I needed an explanation!

Friday january 1´th I went to Majayjay in a cab, needed peace of mind, we could not go all the way to her adress due to a bridge fallen down, but I went to the firedepartment and they told me that there were no fire in Majayjay Christmas Eve, Man I have been had!! It is long time since I have been so angry!

Went out of Manila january 4`th and it took me 5 days to get home and I am still suffering from jetlag while writing this.

Now they are trying to tell me that she is lying in coma at the hospital.. they must be nuts coz I can see whenever she is online!!!

On a computer that were supposed to be burnt!!! Psycho lowlife

“Oh and just for the heck of it, I tried to add her to my yahoo a couple of days ago. Instead of her account still being in the status of “add request pending” as would likely be the case of a person in a coma, her account disappeared from my list, which means she actively denied my request. This confirms that she has been online. More proof that you were scammed.”

January 18´th

www.wendano.com

WEBMASTER SAYS: Perhaps if you posted an English translation of this story we might be able to understand it. I will leave it here for now.

here’s a forum from kendicute from this site http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+topic/id/13932/Fresh+na+fresh+kakascam+lang+skin+%3A(+ … i posted this because we had the same story..i was fooled by this woman just yesterday 1/13/2010 and sent 5k to her thru GCash..i bought her sony cybershot T77 posted in this site http://www.olx.com.ph, i can’t give u the exact site anymore coz i reported this to the management and block the user named “charene diane chua”..anyway, this is the story:

beware of charene diane chua or chady05

nagbenta siya ng laptop hp mini.. ganito po nangyari…

nakita ko po yung ad niya dito so binili ko po… ang deal po namin eh papadala ko muna 50% payment ko sa gcash niya tapos send niya yung item sa air 21 tapos papadala niya sakin yung tracking number.. ayun napadala ko yung money na worth 6k tapos siya ang tagal magreply tapos nung pagtext niya nag provide naman siya ng tracking number so akala ko po ay ok na… ngulat ako pagcheck ko dito sa sulit ung item na binili ko sakanya nakapost na naman.. tinext ko siya excuse niya ay sa friend niya yun so nakalusot siya.. kala ko good deal na.. kaso

mali ako kasi nung tumwag ako sa air 21 the following day hindi nila matrack yung tracking number na binigay sakin, tinawagan ko seller ko sabi niya di daw naguupadate agad yung air 21… yun na yung huling beses ko siya na na-contact hindi na niya sinasagot yung tawag and text ko naalala ko meron siyang email ad kasi nagpadala siya ng pictures for proof daw nung inemail ko reply lang niya na “ulul thanks sa 6000 mo”

wala na pera ko ang ayos niya makipagusap sakin before nakakaawa pa siya kasi ang palabas niya student siya na wala ng pangtution yun pala scammer siya

ingat na lang tayo ha.. kasi nung nireport ko siya sa globe meron na din daw nagreport ng same issue sa kanila nung oct 14..

eto po ung number nia 09064471040 and 09085963764

same number gamit niya same pics nung mga item sa http://www.sulit.com.ph at http://www.olx.com.ph ! ang kapal ng mukha niya help me gusy sana matrack natin siya

*so that’s the story..please naman oh…pls help us para madakip na natin ung “charene diane chua” at masugpo na natin ang kawalang hiya nya…plsssssss…… pls do some actions about this..

Below is a copy of a letter that I sent to the Philippine Police concerning a gentleman in Ilocos Norte that scammed and Hustled me out of $2500.00 on the promise that he was getting his Visa and would be with me in America.

Please, advise me of what to do further to catch this man and have him thrown in jail.

Thank You,

BrokenHeartedAmerican

******************************

PNP National Hedquarters

Camp General Crame

Quezon City,Metro Manila

Tel. +632-7230401

Email: feedback@pnp.gov.ph

Reference: CALLANGA, Ryan Matutino

Date: December 23, 2009

To Whom it May Concern:

I want to report a Philippine Citizen, Ryan Matutino Callanga, scamming and hustling me out of my money on the presumption that he was applying for a Visa to come and live with me in the United States. It is a Scam and he has gotten me for $2500.00. I want to press charges against this individual and would like your advice on how to proceed. I want him arrested and punished for what he did to me. I have been corresponding to this gentleman for the past four months.

He led me to believe that he was in love with me and could not live without me. He said all the right things and played with my emotions. He made me fall in love with him as well. We talked about him coming to the United States and living with me for the past 6 weeks and in that time he led me to believe that he was in the process of applying for his Visa and needed money inorder to do so. I do not know what the process is and you know – “We were in Love”. So, I sent him money. Not all at one time, just at different intervals during the application process but totaling to $2500.00.

At on point during this, I was getting very curious if he was actually doing this or not; so, I asked him for something from the embassy that I could contact to get the information I needed to verify that all this was true. He invented an email address and sent it to me. The following is the email address he gave me that was supposedly for the United States Embassy there in Ilocos Norte:

unitedstatesofamericaembassy@ymail.com

It was all just strange. In America all Government Office’s email addresses end in “.gov”, this one did not but “Love Struck Idiot” that I am believed him and continued to send him money.

Below is a list of all the information I have on him – Of Course, If any of it is true.

These are the known email addresses I have:

ezekielwilson81@yahoo.com

versatile_rye@yahoo.com

ezekiel_wilson2001@yahoo.com

This is suppose to be his address:

RYAN MATUTINO CALLANGA

#14 BUNGON, BATAC, ILOCOS NORTE

2906 PHILIPPINES

This is the number he gave me and, of course, it is not a working phone number now:

639089975630

He also told me that he had a degree in BSBA major in management accounting.

And that he works for METROBANK.

BATAC, ILOCOS NORTE

Address: Washington St., Brgy. Ablan

City: Batac

Province: Ilocos Norte

Contact Nos.: (077)792-2112; (077)617-1345; Fax No.: (077)792-2113

http://www.tagged.com/ezekielwilson81

I met this gentleman on a dating site called TAGGED. His name on this site is Ezekiel Wilson. He is a Porno Actor and that is his Modeling name. Also, on his profile, he is telling everyone that he lives in Commerce, Ca. If I would have known that he actually lived in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, I would not have contacted him. But I did. (And this is also a very long false story he told me) And after 2 months of chatting with him on Yahoo Messenger, he confesses to me that he lives in the Philippines but that he loves me and that he really wants to be with me. And If I truly loved him, I would forgive him and help him come to the United States. Well, of course, by this time I am thinking with my penis instead of my brain – I mean a gorgeous young man wants to be with me, how can I refuse. This is of course a shorten version of the long trail of lies he gave me.

On the 18th of December, I sent him the balance of the fees for this supposed Visa and was also told that the Embassy was sending me all the information I needed to prove that the visa application was true through FedEx. And since then, I have had no contact with Mr. Callanga, I have tried to get him to be online for us to chat – he does not respond, supposedly he is having a problem with his Modem. I have tried to call him and the phone number does not work. It has been five days and I have not received one message from Mr. Callanga nor have I received a package from the embassy.

I will probably never see Mr. Callanga nor get my money back. This is a very expensive lesson for me. But to avoid this gentleman doing this again to some poor unsuspecting fool, he needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

I am also sending a copy of this email to the United States Citizen Immigration Service and the Embassy.

Thank You,

Modus operandi of these criminals:

i have fallen victim to a trio of criminal scammers

here is my analysis though:

one will disguise himself as a graduate STUDENT,

and one CIVILIAN and one ASSET.

then they will tell you stories to make you believe them. such as a campaign against fraternities.

next, they will and they will ask you to do something. such as put ur name on a piece of paper, ur school name and ur adress.

then, they will ask you to put ur stuff in ur bag such as valuables. for security. which i believe is unreasonable and illogical, too bad i fell for it.

next they will ask you to move away from your stuff. about a mile. they will ask you to go to a restaurant and have that piece of paper signed by 3 people or women.

then about the ASSET, this one’s tricky, the asset and the CIVILIAN guy will go to the restaurant with the ASSET’S name, school name and address to make the VICTIM believe they did what they implied me to do also. which i stupidly did, cuz their reason are quite convincing.

“about a band rehearsal with 3 women in it getting pissed off by a group of guys from a fraternity”

then, the ASSET and CIVILIAN guy will come back with their own signature on it. the one i told which 3 people should have signed it for a campaign against fraternities.

Then after that, MY piece of paper is blank, with only my name, school and address.

then the STUDENT asked me, to go to a restaurant with him. and he told me to sit and wait for 3 people bound to sign on my paper.

note: the paper they gave me is folded.

then next, the STUDENT said he will come back in a while. then i waited a bit, the STUDENT is gone. then i sort of got bored and decided to OPEN the paper, and to my surprise, it wasn’t the one i wrote on!

it was the ASSET’S paper!

note: i left ALL my valuables behind with the ASSET and CIVILIAN guy.

I was terribly alarmed, i rushed back, but to my surprise, they were GONE!!!

i asked the guard if they saw those 3 people, but the guard was sort of avoiding me, like he was paid to get his mouth shut.

i cried.. for my WALLET, PSP and CELLPHONE even my BOOKS was all in my BAG!!!

i rushed to the nearest police station for file casing. but they ignored me and decided just to blotter it.

i came home empty handed, and my mom was asking questions and stuff, i just made reasons to cover my mistake.

luckily, my stuff can be replaced. but not my life..

WARNING: if somebody at ANONAS or ST.JOSEPH CHURCH asks you suddenly from out of the blue and brings you to a place and do this to you too, watch out. its THEM.

—-Gian Silvestre,

a victim to a scam

then they will buzz off without you knowing what hit you.

I would like to warn you from a couple named Samuel Atanque and Dionisia “Baby” Federizo Atanque. They were previously residing at Santa Rosa, Laguna but has since moved to Atimonan, Quezon – the hometown of the guy.

Their style of business is generally on Real Estate, wherein they would sell you a House and Lot or a Lot Only with a fake land title. On the side, they offer Check Re-discounting and sells Made-to-Order Security Jackets.

They were so good at their trade that they were able to lure and victimize a lot of people – including their supposedly “best” friend. Said best friend was not aware of the couple’s modus operandi that she bought three (3) parcels of land from the couple in Santa Rosa, Laguna. This best friend has lost around Php1.2M for the three (3) lots, which she had been religiously paying in monthly installments for the past ten (10) years.

The couple’s modus was exposed to their “best” friend July of 2009 by accident – but too late as the couple and their three (3) kids were able to leave Santa Rosa, Laguna successfully. To date, the couple’s relatives in Santa Rosa keeps on saying they don’t know where their sister was, but the couple were believed to be either in Calamba, Laguna or Atimonan, Quezon.

If by chance you meet someone in Quezon with the names Samuel “Sammy” Atanque and Dionisia “Baby” Federizo Atanque…BEWARE!!!

I met Marjorie A. Erezo in December 2009 on Cherry Blossoms. We became friendly overnight. We exchanged phone numbers, email addresses, and yahoo messenger IDs. We talked literally every day, sometimes several times a day. My cell phone bill for this period was about $600.00. She gave my an unusual story about not having any family and living alone, and just losing her job, so she was looking for another job. After a short while, we decided to meet. Since we talked every day, a lot transpired. Well, she asked me to send her money to get a Visitor’s Visa. I told her about another woman that got me also. She told me that she was not like that and that she was going to send me receipts and make sure that I was informed of every step of the way. OK, I send her money to get a visa. One thing, another, and another, and I were very quickly in over $5,000.00. Extra expenses, bank money, pesos bank account, US dollar bank account, and it was up to a point of no return. At the same time that I was sending more money, she kept telling me that she was going to send receipts the next time. In January, 2010, I told her that there was no more money. Yet, she said that we were almost there. She said that she had gotten the passport and was waiting on an interview for the visa. She told me that she forgot to scan a copy of the passport. After more questions for me, she told me that the interviewer wanted her to have the two separate accounts, one in US dollars and one in Pesos. Then she said that the interviewer told her to get a ticket with Continental and for departure on a certain day. The price for the ticket for this was higher than other air lines. Also, she told me that the ticket agency was charging $400 to $500.00 more than what I told her I saw on the internet. More money. She told me that she was going to fly out on January 25, then January 30, then February 4th. February 4th came and went, but no communication from her at all. We went from talking multiple times a day and night, every day and night, to no communication at all. She did not respond to my calls, texts, emails, or yahoo messages. Nothing. I called her from another phone on February 6, and she answered. When she realized it was me, she hung up the phone. I contacted Cherry Blossoms and they deactivated her profile. I see a lot of deactivated profiles on that site. I suppose they are scammers also. I contacted the Philippine National Police and reported this. She goes by the name of Marjorie A Erezo, and supposedly lives in Quezon City, her phone number is 011 639 284 574 362. She has not answered my calls or any other form of communication since before February 4th. Total spend on her was $5,825.00including fees and charges for Western Union and Money Gram.

I am writing to warn you all of a women called jeny(jean) estandante who has befriended me over past 2 years to try and gain a better life abroad. I have also spent money on her over these past 2 years little bits at a time, well I found out she was also chatting up a Ryan jolly from the US and also getting money out of him for over 8 months now from what I was told and I’ve seen emails too. This lady is hunting a better life and money to help support her poor family in Philippines.

You can contact me on more info about this person, I have photos too

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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I met Marjorie A Erezo on the Cherry Blossoms web site. We became friendly, and we decided to meet. Because I am a police officer and have a second job, I was unable to get away. She decided to get a passport and visitor’s visa to come visit me. So, she told me what it cost and I sent her the money, about $650.00 including some misc expenses.

She called me back to tell me that she needed more money for this and for that, and I sent it. She and I talked every day, it seemed as though she wanted money every time we talked on the phone, by text, and by yahoo messenger. She told me that she knew someone at the embassy and that they would help her know what to do to get approved for a visitor’s visa.

She told me that she needed show money to give a bank statement to the embassy to show that she had a tie to the Philippines. She said that she was an only child, and did not have anything else to show that she had ties to the Philippines. So, I sent her another $1,000.00 at her request. I asked her to send me the bank statement, and to send me receipts for what she was buying with my money. She said that she would send me receipts when the process was completed. Around the first of January 2010, she said that she had her passport, and had submitted it to the embassy with an application for the visa. She said that she forgot to scan it and send me a copy. She asked for more money for the process, and I sent more money.

She told me that the interviewer told her that the money that she had was not enough and that she needed to have at least 300,000 pesos in order to get approved. I challenged that amount and she said that she would ask for the minimum, which turned out to be 50,000 pesos. So, more money. She told me that the first money for a bank account was in US dollars and she was not able to withdraw it until she got to the US. She said that the interviewer wanted her to have money in pesos to show a tie to the Philippines, and I sent her enough for 50,000 pesos. She told me that the interviewer wanted her to get a Continental ticket and to fly out on a certain day. We started with January 20, then January 25, then January 30. She told me that she needed to take the h1n1, and that she needed money for that. Well, we agreed that the first money that I sent included the h1n1 shot. She said that she had spent the money on other expenses. So, more money for h1n1 flu shot.

I challenged her on all of the money and the process, and of course, the receipts for what she had spent my money on. She told me that she was flying out on February 4, 2010. I did not get a call, email, text, or yahoo message from her. I finally got her on the phone on February 6, 2010, and she told me that she did not know what to tell me about what she had done. Then, she hung up on me. She has not answered my texts, yahoo messages, emails, or phone calls. She has about $5,500.00 of my money.

I contacted Cherry Blossoms, and they have deactivated her account. I contacted Philippine news papers, and the Philippine National Police. I am waiting on response from the Philippine National Police. I am telling my story to everyone whom I come into contact with. Her name again is Marjorie A Erezo, telephone # 011639 284 574 362, her email is littletreasure543@yahoo.com. I have photos also – email me and I will send them to you atintl@aol.com