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Examples of Scammer Fraud on Dating Websites, Advice From Those Who Learned The Hard Way, And Some Good News

Be careful to be conservative. If there's a story that tempts you to pull out your wallet, just call the site management to ask whether you're being taken before you throw away your hard-earned savings.

As we’ve written in the past, in our articles in this blog, fraud is something that we all have to work together to prevent.  At Christian Filipina, we strive to screen out potential members who appear to have questionable motives.  We also screen some of the internal site mail, track login history, and ban users who are reported as violating our terms of service.  This is part of the value we add that our members appreciate and why hundreds and hundreds of our members have become upgraded members on our site.  We also try to keep our members as educated as possible about how fraud can happen over the internet, so that they can understand and take proper action if they find themselves in a situation like this.  Please read our past blog archives, and this letter, if you would like to learn more about these issues.

In our effort to educate, we have in the past given specific examples of fraud that was conducted on our website.  We are going to continue this tradition with this post.  Please fasten your seatbelts.

We make an effort to keep in touch with our members, and to encourage them to ask us questions about specific members, to report violations, and to ask us advice.  The following were collected from several members who unfortunately had bad news to share with us over the past several months.

1. [...] I was new in using the net but should have read the warning. I was deceived and defrauded in a way of $3,503.00. Because I am a born again christian I was too trusting to a woman claiming to be a Christian too,on her profile and thru email and phone. I don’t regret helping but the reasons I was told turn out to be all lies. She claim to be graduating nursing student with balance in school. Then being an orphan raise by grandma and suddenly grandma in hospital so I felt sorry for her and in one month of sept.2009 I sent her that money thru western union. I caught her lying when I asked her the name of all the medicines she claimed to have paid for her grandma and she can’t remember any and yet a graduating nurse? I am a nurse myself so then I knew i was a victim of a scam.   I dig in more on your site and found she was using several profile name.  I knew her as apple, the other names she used are Rhonnie, Kelly,Precela. Her real name is Brina S. Bentolero of 14 camella dr. Zamboanga, zamboanga city 7000. The last Add. she directed me to send her the money was Barra Opol, Cagayan de Oro City. I sent her email  telling her that I will write this net to expose her scam and to warn other Christian men about her being an angel of deception.[...]You can post my letter for others to learn from my experience. I don’t blame the net. [...] Sincerely, [...]
2. [] I was defrauded out of more than a couple thousand dollars. I never thought someone I was trying to help come to the U.S. to work would ever deceive and betray me, but that’s what happened. She was very cunning. Well a person lives and learns. Unfortunately, I thought I knew how to spot and handle a fraud, but I did not. I really got burned. I’m wiser now and know I must use all the tools available to make sure someone isn’t a fraud. Here are a few of the emails sent to me by Paula Reyes and her accomplices. The really sad thing is I thought I was helping someone come to the U.S. to work on a ‘work visa’ they were obtaining and not as a girlfriend. My efforts to help someone backfired. This Paula Reyes was/is part of a scam operation. Apparently she was living in General Santos City and finishing college in August when she initially emailed me. She claimed she had no family and was out of money. She said her mom abandoned her when she was 3 years old. After a few weeks she said she had been offered an “urgent hire” position as a caregiver at El Camino Hospital Foundation in California – which just happened to be in the same City where I lived. Then she claimed she needed to fly to Manila to “out process” with the caregiver agency who hired her. She claimed she needed money to fly to Manila from General Santos City. Then, when in Manila, she claimed to have gotten robbed and cut with a knife which gave her tetanus. Because of this she needed to spend a few days in the hospital…… It goes on and on. The bottom line is she and her accomplices Imelda Cruz and Norma Templado all conspired to extract money from me through this elaborate hoax/fraud. Please inform your website subscribers. I have many, many more emails in addition to these I have attached….

   • Subject: my flight details
     
     From: “paula reyes”
     
     Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:50:20 -0800
     To: <>
     
     departure- manila, philippines ( MNL )  fri, 18 sep 2009 22:30
     arrival- san francisco, san francisco international,
     united states of america ( SFO )  fri, 18 sep 2009  20:00
     
     flight- PR104  philippine airlines
     details- economy  non-stop
     
     []by tuesday i need to go to manila to go to the us embassy.
     i need 7,000 pesos fpr my plane ticket going to manila and i
      have to stay there until my flight plus my terminal fee of 150 $
      and room rent and allowance and its 5,000 pesos. []this would be my last wish.
       pls help e. this is it []we will meet soon which is Gods plan.
     7,000 pesos for plane ticket going to manila
     150$ for terminal fee
     5,000 pesos for room rent and food, fare allowances for 1 week
     
     pls help me for this []. thank you so much for making me happy and granted my wish.
     im sure i can have good life in your place and with you.
     may God bless you and guide you always. i miss you
     
     missing you
     paula

   • From:”paula reyes”
     
     Date:Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:03:32 -0800
     To:[]
     hi [] i got the number of my agency. but if you call my agency today no one will
      answer you coz its holiday here in the philippines.
      but you can call my manager on her mobile phone.
     this is my agency number- +630835529899
     this is my manager number- +639073933167
     [], i already pack my things and i am very much ready here.
     pls pray me to God on my travel. thank you []and may God bless you and guide you always.
     missing you
     paula

   • Subject:Re: []/Paula Reyes
     From:”JRS Agency For Abroad”
     Date:Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:27:32 -0800
     To:”[]
     Mr. [],
     I Just Wan’t To Remind You About Paula’s Account.
     Did She Tell You That She Borrow The 500 US $, Because She Need To Have 1500 US $.
     The Need That To Complete The Amount That She Need To Open A $ Account.
     My Concern Mr. [] Is, That 500 US $ Is An Agency Fund. And I Need To Have It By
     Tomorrow Because The General Management Do A Monthly Audit For This Month.
     That Is My Problem Now Mr. []. If I Don’t Have That They Will Fire Me.
     I Have My Family Mr. []. I Really Need To Have This Job. I Hope You Understand My Part.
     God Bless And More Power!!!
     Respectfully Your’s
     Imelda R. Cruz
     JR’s Agency For Abroad
     Manager
     Quezon City Branch

3. Finally, here was a case that we heard of from one of our ladies in the Philippines –  it concerns a man she met on another site (not ours) claiming to be from UK/London.  I am including it here because I think the same kind of thing could happen anywhere.  He supposedly sent her a package containing $20,000 and the fraud was going to be to have her pay some kind of fee of hundreds of dollars to get the package (which would then be empty).  Somehow, there was even a tracking number created that appeared to be a real package in a shipping company website.  I don’t know how they did that, but I can tell you from reading this, that it is a hoax.  Here is the letter she received from him:

My Love!

Loving you is the best thing that has ever happened to me in so many years. My world has been so lonely until I found you and I have promised myself to love and cherish u as my wife.

Honey, I will come to spend time with you and you and have lots of fun too. I want us to spend our time in the classiest places in your country. What we share Honey is very special and I want you to know that I love you from the inner most part of my heart..

I think that your need is mine too. And meanwhile, i don’t want any worry in your life other than your hard working which determine to make a better and meaningful life. Just accept this token from me. It is nothing to show appreciative for the happiness which you have brought to my life since I met you, God has really blessed me with wealth but i never found true love. But I believe with you my searching for love has come to and send. Since there was no time to contact you any longer becos I never plan to live for Ireland, for your bank account details to do a bank transaction and bank transfer will take me a long process, I had no option than to sealed the money in the laptop park for your to care for yourself till I come.

Darling, I have sent the gift to you before i left for Ireland for the contract i told you, i had an urgent call, I have to move immediately .honey these are the items: HP Product Laptop, Rose Flower and xmas flower, Sunny Digital Camera, Gold necklace with ring (engagement ring), christmas card, two of my personal pictures and the sum of (£10,000) pounds sealed in the same computer pack. Darling, i want you to use £5,000 pounds  to care for yourself  and  the  passport and keep £5,000 for our funs when I come to your country

I sent it to your name and address you gave me. Name’ []Address: [], DAVAO CITY PHILS.800 Phone: (+63910[]) home and Emails ([]), from my inquiry the pack will arrive to your country and your house 4 to 6 day’s time.

Please let me know when you receive the Gift.

Below attached is a picture of the Laptop,  and pack containing the items so that you can identify it?

This is the company I sent the gift so that you can get the information and movement of the Gift

ATLAS AIR WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS Website: http://www.atlasairworld.com/holdings/

Username:         [] Password:     []       Tracking NO:     7383632

NB: Go to the company website click tracking and paste the Username and password to long in, you see your information and thereafter click below to paste the Tracking no: to see the movement of the parcel to know when the gift will arrive.

Please do this often and often. Take care of yourself till we meet

with love from Engr. Steve Mathins.

Let me conclude this sad section with the reminders:

• Do not ever send money to anyone you have never met in person
• Take your time – especially if you are new to online dating and/or new to international social networking – so that you can learn the ropes of what warning signs to avoid.  We recommend you take several months to learn about this new way to meet people, and to meet people casually, rather than jumping into anything without meeting in person.
• Insist on chatting on webcam, to be sure that the person in the pictures is the one who you are talking with, that the person typing is the one who is on the webcam, and that the person you are talking with is focused on talking with you, rather than chatting with several other people at the same time.
• Be cautious of anyone who immediately wants you to switch to using yahoo messenger rather than correspond on our site – many scammers know that our site has a reputation for immediately suspending those who ask for money and so they try to only relate their sob stories or webcam sex invitations using your yahoo messenger.  If you hear any of those kinds of stories or invitations from anyone you met on our site, write to us with the user’s number, and we will suspend them immediately.
• If you ever have anyone you met on our site ask you for money or suggest something illegal or immoral, contact us immediately using the feedback form on our site.  We are partners with you in helping to bridge the gaps between cultures, and we can only do that well when we communicate to you and you communicate to us.

We find that some people with good instincts tend to have an easy time choosing quality people to meet and sensing which to avoid, and some other people have to learn the hard way.  I hope this information we are sharing helps those of you who need to learn the hard way, to learn it a little more quickly and less painfully than some have had to learn.

We also decided to end this with a few good testimonials we received recently when we wrote to some of our members who had canceled their membership:

• I am married now to a sweet kind good lady from Gingoog city, Mindano[...] Maby the girls here are more down to earth with moral values one would hope. Often the prettier they are the more difficult they are. Guys need to be very carefull here online looking for wives. Women are often willing to say anything and do anything to get a guy. The asain exterior charm and feminity can hide a scheeming, cold, materialistic woman.  Guys can”t see it sometimes. The longer  some women are online the more desperate  they seem to be, and jaded.  My wife recently told me about a local girl who was chatting 42 guys and getting money from many of them.  Guys can be so niave and gullable. Of course I think many men are treating sweet, kindhearted, simple, girls shabbily online from what I hear. You know, how wonderfull a good filipina girl can be. They are “THE BEST” wives in the world, and best in Asia. Christian background. Similar culture to America. Adaptable and family oriented. They are mostly vulnerable, niave, and simple, and sweet, and looking for love, and I don’t think they should have to suffer the bad treatment. Some guys don’t have a clue how genuine a good Filipina can be. I hope your goodhearted  clients all find good husbands espercially the ones who have kids and need help. I have a family  there to support too. They are so poor and need my help. Gods plan I guess. You know I think a poor family there is capable of raising a better woman than many “rich” families here. No attitude, bad language, tatoos, smoking, drinking, and running around, selfish, materialistic, cold attitude, plastic ect.  To improve your site, you need better photos, and a space to allow the woman to describe herself and what she wants in a man.  A womans eyes tell her personality, and usually match what she states about herself and what she wants in a man, and in life with him , this should be clear in her own words. This can aid in helping all find a better match. Happy ending.
• Yes,I met someone from your website and we are to be married hopefully,in January.
• I canceled my membership because I found the love of my life on your website,  She is beyond any woman I ever dreamed of.  I thank God for your webiste and ask God to bless those who seek somone special on your website.  I have found my pinay.
• I cancelled on your site because I found that special someone on your site.I live in a place where born again Christians with good morals are few and far between.I briefly tried a site in the U.S. only to find the same horror stories I had heard about.When I saw your site I tried again only because you were a Christian site.I have never dated outside of my country before and now I am going to Cebu to meet in person for the first time [].With web cams and messenger the technology is amazing to learn more about a future partner.I want to thank you for a site where people with values and morals can go to meet other people…God Bless you …and p.s. we are making wedding arrangements as we speak I am confident all will go well in our meeting…Thanks,again

God Bless to all our members, especially those who are not scammers, but even them, may those who are dishonest and not humble be touched by the Spirit to leave behind those ways, and may those who do follow the commandments of the Lord be rewarded and live in His love and in the community of loving believers.

Experimental Video/Audio/Text Chat Launched for Gold and Diamond Members

We’ve now launched our experimental video/audio/text chat program.  This will allow our upgraded members to chat with or without webcam and audio.  Our first trial will be to our Gold and Diamond Members.  Here’s how it works.

When you view the profile of another person who is currently online, if you are a Gold or Diamond member, then you will see a button to chat with the member at the bottom of their profile.

Chat Online Button

If you see that button, it means that you are able to use the Chat, and it means that the member is online.  If you click on that link, you’ll begin the chat session.

Chat Window

Once you login to the chat session, you may have to wait a few moments for the other member to accept your chat request.   You may begin typing into the box to the left of the “Send” button at any time.

When you begin your chat session, the computer will prompt you for the permission to use your webcam and audio devices.  If you would like to use webcam and audio, you must allow the program to use those devices.  If you prefer just to chat with text only, you can reject the request for webcam and audio.   The text chat will still work.

If your friend does not appear to accept your chat request, it may be because he or she is chatting with someone else, may have stepped away from the computer, or may not have javascript enabled on their computer.  This application only works if you have enabled javascript on your computer and have a working updated browser with flash installed.

There are still a few problems we are working on – remember, it’s experimental!  If you notice anything out of the ordinary, just let us know so that we can do our best to resolve the issue.

Within a few months, we hope to launch the fully-functional version for all upgraded members Silver and above.  For now, this feature is available only for Gold and Diamond level members.

Would You Like to Help Us Improve Our Website? We Need Your Input

Over the upcoming week, we’ll be inviting some of our upgraded members to talk with us on the phone and to do screen-sharing to help us see what elements of the present website design are important to keep and change.  If you are an upgraded member and would like to spend 20-30 minutes talking with us about the website, we will reimburse you with an additional week added to your upgraded membership.  Just contact us using our contact/feedback form.  We are especially interested if you have the latest version of skype installed (it allows screen sharing) but even if you do not have that program and just want to participate, just let us know your timezone, phone number, and a good time to contact you.

New “My Matches” Feature Launched

We’ve now finished our first version of our “Weekly Email Matches” and set it to send all members weekly matches by email.  If you prefer to receive an email of your latest matches more often or less often – or even turn it off completely – you can easily modify your preferences by logging in to your account and clicking on “Edit My Settings” from the left-hand menu.  At the bottom of the list of settings is the setting for the My Matches mail.  If you are not receiving your matches, please make sure that your email address in our system is up-to-date, and also add our email addresses into your address book.

A snippet from a "My Matches" email

Each mailing will include a few of the most recent members to join, as well as a few members who may not be active on the site any more.  You can click on any of the pictures from the email to go directly to the profile on christian-filipina.com.  And if you’re logged in to christian-filipina.com you’ll immediately see the links to wink and send messages.  Don’t be shy.  Go ahead and contact any members.  Just start a simple conversation in a message, or just send a wink.  There’s no time better than the present to say hello.

As always, if you have any suggestions or comments of any kind, feel free to let us know.

Please Comment And Vote on Our New Front Page Layout Possibilities

Which of these layouts immediately appeals to you most? We’d like your feedback as we design the new front page of our website. Keep in mind that we will be able to combine the aspects that are most compelling from the layouts into one final design.

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Layout 1 For Site (click to see closeup and leave comments about Layout 1)

Layout 2 For Site (click to see closeup and leave comments about Layout 2)

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Welcome to our New Christian Filipina Blog!

Welcome to our new blog format.  We’ll be sharing our ideas here for members of our Christian-Filipina.com community.  If you’d like for us to address a particular topic on our blog, just use the contact link on the christian-filipina.com website to let us know.  We always like to hear from you.  We’ve also posted some of articles from our site and from our mailings to members.  Make sure to check out all our posts!

Over 10,000 Members! Plus, Read Our Christmas Special Offers

Hi,

It’s Jen from Christian Filipina. It’s been a while since I’ve written (sorry!). We’re happy to announce that we now have over ten thousand members on Christian Filipina. Have you visited recently and introduced yourself to any new members?

We are happy to share with you that we have reduced our prices for our two most popular plans for the holiday season. We are also offering a special for returning members – if you have previously been an upgraded member with us, and you upgrade again at the same level of service, we will double your membership time as our holiday gift to you! Just write to us after you upgrade and request the returning-member double-time. Not a returning member but still hoping for an additional discount? We also offer a 50% time bonus to military, former

military, ordained, students, and those in financial difficulties. Simply sign up and email us after to request your extra 50% (which cannot be combined with any other offer).

And finally, we want to tell you that we are working on a video chat program that will work within our site for all upgraded members to chat with their chat mates using webcam. If you are an upgraded member and would like to help us with our pre-release testing, please reply to this email.

Please let us know how you are doing this November. We love to hear from you.

Jen and Pete,

(We’re the Owners, Customer Service Agents, and Your Friends!)

Family-Owned, Family-Run, Pro-Family!

Christian-Filipina.com

p.s. Don’t forget – Never, ever send money to someone you have never met physically in person!

5,000 Members!

This was a letter we sent to all our members on September 1, 2009

Hi,

We’re happy to announce that we now have five thousand members!  Have you visited recently to have the chance to meet some of the new members who have joined?  There are dozens of new members joining per day.  Why not visit and take the chance to wink at your favorite new members, or send them a brief hello?  It’s free to send friendly messages (although we do ask that if you are ready to share contact details with another member, that you upgrade your membership at that time)

In celebration of this milestone, we have setup up a special membership offer.  As always, when you upgrade your membership, you are allowed to send and receive contact details in your personal messages.  What we offer as a special this week is a double time promotion.  Our most popular membership level, gold, ($59.99) is usually a 3-month membership – but if you upgrade to gold this week, it is a 6-month membership!  Likewise, our next most popular option, Silver ($29.99) is 2 months instead of 1 month.  Our other membership options (1 day, 1 week, and 1 year) are all also doubled.

So don’t hesitate – if you’ve been thinking of upgrading, this is your chance!  This special offer is valid for this week only!

I also want to follow up with you about the email I had sent a week ago regarding scammers.  We have had a few reports of scammers on the site.  We have been actively following up to immediately suspend any members who violate our terms of service, which includes asking for money.  It’s a definite no-no!  We did create a separate web page called the Scammer Hall of Fame - where you can read about our recent “petrochemical engineer” who turned out to be a Nigerian fraudster!  We’re ashamed and sorry about it, but we think it’s best to be upfront with our members.  You have to be cautious, even on a Christian site.  Use your common sense.  If you have any questions or witness strange behavior, please email me or write back using the feedback link on every page of the site.

If you’ve forgotten your password, you can retrieve it at http://christian-filipina.com/forgotpass.php and then sign in.  You can also tell your friends about the site by clicking on the “Invite a Friend” link on the home-page, or just click here.

See you at the site!

Jen,

Christian Filipina

http://christian-filipina.com

Who Can I Trust? Examples From Scam Hall of Fame

Hi,

We had hoped that in our Christian site, that we would not have the same problems with persons who sought to take advantage of other persons.  Unfortunately, in our first year at Christian Filipina, we’ve found that with the success and popularity of our website, we’ve also attracted some dishonest persons.

What are some signs that you can't trust someone you've met online? When their stories constantly change but the stories all end with a request for your money.

While we believe almost all of our members are honest, we have decided to share with our members a few examples when we have learned of scam persons who have tried to defraud other members.  We also want to pass along to you the link to Dragonladies.org This is a site where you can read more accounts of internet scamming than you want to read.  We don’t have any relation to that site or know how much of the information is accurate, but we think it can be helpful to talk with others to be wise when getting to know people from a different culture. You might also learn from more general fraud-information sites like http://fraudgallery.com/, FraudAid , and http://www.scamletters.com/ .

On our own site, I will share with you two examples from August of 2009. The first was a scam by a person claiming to be a woman employed as a petrochemical engineer living in the United States and operating her own oil drilling company.  She signed up for the site and upgraded her account to a paid membership.  She then apparently sent an email to several site members, and some of those responded offline.  The men she responded with (in the two examples we heard about) thought something was fishy – especially when the woman seemed to have a male voice on the phone – and then found it especially strange when the woman came up with an elaborate scheme to donate supplies to the Philippines, which would require a western union payment from the man in order to release two suitcases of luggage containing these supplies.  Here is the fake receipt from the supposed shipping company in Nigeria:

We have received a confirmation letter from your fiancee Miss Kodrea Smith who insured and deposited some luggage in our custody. Deposit number. GSC – O576 – PLG45, Sort/Clearance Code: GSC / 576-45/MP56 33, Deposit Certificate #: 405576.Confidentially saying we should deliver 2boxes luggage to you . We are pleased to inform you that we render diplomatic delivery services worldwide. We have agents such as; UPS international, DHL, FedEx express and many others who run a professional and quality delivery services all over the world. Our affiliate runs quality services at your disposal up to your doorsteps. The luggage would be sent by flight to the address you gave us has we have been earlier informed by your fiancee. Below are the charges for our service delivery direct to your doorstep

CHARGES                                       

INSURANCE FEE :                                   $ 510 .00
CLEARANCE :                                          $ 330 .00
SECURITY:                                               $ 210 .00
SHIPMENT &TRANSPORT FEE :               $ 520.00
                                                                ________
TOTALS :                                                 $1570.00 

Amount paid by Miss Kodrea Smith             $920.00
                                                                ......................
Total balance ro pay                                  $650.00

You are required to pay the total sum of U S D $1070.00 for services delivery to be done appropriately. Your tracking number will be sent to you so has to enable you know the movement of the luggage after payment of the above fee.

The luggage will be delivering to this recipient address given to us (confidential) Your contact address is needed where the luggages is going shipped.

METHOD OF PAYMENT:

Payment should be made through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER agent nearest to you with the following information.
NAME : KINGSLEY NJOKU
ADDRESS : 40 ALLEN JUCTION
STATE : LAGOS
CITY : IKEJA
COUNTRY : NIGERIA
ZIPCODE : 23401
OTE:
Send the information you use for the payment to us for necessary documentation and shipment processing. Your ability to make payment as soon as possible determined the fastness of our services delivery. Thank you for consulting and using our services and be rest assured that your luggage are safe and secured for delivery. At INTER GLOBAL SHIPPING COMPANY,we serve you better with peace of mind. A trial will convince you. We hope to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
NJOKU KINGSLEY [Custodian Manager]

We are glad that our member sent us the scam report instead of sending the money to Nigeria!  Never send money anywhere, especially Nigeria!  Here is another example of a fraud that a user reported receiving from a member:

23/24 Cocody Avenue

Abidjan Cote divoire

Dearest One,

I know this mail will come to you as a surprise since we have not had previous
correspondence, please bear with me. I will really like to have a good bussiness relationship
with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you. I am Miss Sokona Nnam 18
years old girl from Cote d Ivoire, the only daughter of Late Mr Edward Nnam I
am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I am receiving from
my Uncles.

They planned to take away all my late father’s treasury and properties from me
since the unexpected death of my beloved Parents.Meanwhile I wanted to escape
to anywhere i can have a good life but he hides away my international passport
and other valuable travelling documents. Luckily he did not discover where I
kept my fathers File which contains important documents.So I decided to run to
an orphanage camp where I am presenty hiding under Reform Abidjan Cote DIovoire
where my late father deposited some amount of money in a bank. I wish to
contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment
assistance in anywhere in the world.

My late father deposited the sum of US5.5 million (Five million Five Hundred
united state dollars) in one of the leading bank with my name as the next of
kin.

However, I shall forward to you with the necessary documents on confirmation of
your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the money to your account, and
investment of the fund. As you will help me in an investment, and I will like
to complete my studies, as I was formerly a medical student, when the crisis
started. If you are willing to help me in this kindly get back to me as soon as
possible.

I am waiting for your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to
your self please I plead you not to disclose it till I come over to your
country after the transfer.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as
compensation of your effort and 5% for any other expence you made after a
successful transfer.

Thank you and God bless
Miss Sokona Nnam

Well, we are ashamed that it happened using our site, and we are going to try to keep our members up to date that they have to keep their common sense.  And please, as soon as you are suspicious of any member, report it immediately.  We will soon be installing a new feature to make reporting potential scam even easier, but for now you can easily use the Feedback Form link at the bottom of the page.

Remember, although these two extreme examples come from Africa, it’s also possible that a friend you meet on the site might ask for money even if she is a Filipina who is in your own denomination.  We have a strict rule against members soliciting money from other members.  Please report this behavior as soon as possible, and we will immediately suspend the violating member.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s bad teeth, dead caribou, school expenses, sick grandmother, etc, it’s simply inappropriate, and it’s a violation of our terms of service.

We do value you as members of the site.  We’re sorry that we have had to relay this information.  Remember, don’t send money to anyone you meet online who you have never met in person!

Have a great day.  Take your time to meet new friends.  When you have a chance, take a trip to meet friends in person and learn about a new culture.  Let me know if you have any comments or questions, by using the feedback link at the bottom of the page.

God bless you all.

Jen

Almost 1,000 Members

This was a letter we sent to all our members on June 19, 2009

Hi,

We’re happy to announce that after just four months of basic publicity, we now have over nine hundred members. Have you visited recently to have the chance to meet some of the new members who have joined recently? This week we will surely have our 1,000th member, as we now have almost two hundred new members joining weekly.

We would like to take this chance to let you know about a few upcoming developments and ask for feedback.

First of all, we’re continuing to upgrade our message filtering system. As you know from reading our FAQ, we do allow free members to send messages to other members. However, we do not allow free members to send contact information or to post contact information in their personal profiles. (Members who have upgraded their accounts can send personal contact information, because upgraded accounts bypass the filtering system.) We’ll be continuing over the next few months fo work out the bugs in the filtering system.

Second, we’ll be increasing our membership fees at the end of June to $30 per month for silver membership and $60 per 3 months for gold membership. If you sign up before July 1, you can still sign up at the very affordable rate of $15 for silver or $30 for gold. Our signup payments (using credit card, bank account or paypal account) go through paypal.com, so your credit card information is 100% secure, backed by one of the top payment processors on the internet, and it is backed by Paypal’s guarantees, as well as ours. We don’t handle the credit card information in any way on any of our systems: that’s all handled through the multinational, multi-billion-dollar Paypal, #1 payment processor on the internet.

Finally, please send us your suggestions about the website. How well does the website work in your browser? What do you wish we could add to the website? Is all the text on the website legible? Do you have any questions about the website? Just send your email to us using the feedback form.

You can find the feedback form link at the bottom of our home-page christian-filipina.com. We will select the user who sends us the most helpful feedback for a free silver membership.

If you’ve forgotten your password, you can retrieve it at http://christian-filipina.com/forgotpass.php and then sign in. You can also tell your friends about the site by clicking on the “Invite a Friend” link on the home-page.

Feel free to offer any suggestions to us that you have about the site. Don’t be too shy to wink at new members or write them a short note about yourself. This might be just the chance you’ve been waiting for!

Jen,

Christian Filipina

http://christian-filipina.com