I find it very interesting to watch all the different forms of scamming that people get into in different low-pay countries, just because they think all men from Western nations are rich.
New Translation Love Scam from China
I will try to report the latest scams in my blog here. But, feel free to send me any email you have with information about new scams, if you see something interesting.
The latest scam from China involves some very innocent looking – but pretty – girls from China.
First they will send you a few simple emails in English, but then quickly try to get you to sign into one of their free membership sites – AsianSweetLove. But, the catch is you must pay money to translate each email to the girl!
This is particularly gross since you can use the free web site from Google Translate that works wonders. If you need to translate any love letters or email in Chinese or Thai for a girl that speaks little English, just use the free Google translate service. It is not a 100% perfect in translation, but it is certainly 95% – or enough to make any girl understand your meaning.
I even use the Google translation web site when I am online chatting with an Asian girl, in real time. The girls are normally very impressed when I send Chinese or Thai sentences over Yahoo! messenger or MSN. (smile)
Free Google Translation to Chinese and Thai
With this Chinese love-scam it is very possible that no girl is receiving your romantic emails, but this is probably an internet sweat-shop with rows of people hovering over their computers, solely interested in fleecing your Western valet to collect some money.
Be aware and stay away from these web sites. I do not know anything positive – or real love, that comes from this.
However, these girls always look so cute! – I wish they were really available online for chatting and more. So sad, but I guess that is why so many guys get sucked in. (smile)
- Doctor Smile
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it really is a scam no buts period.
desireemay
I’ve had a few (about 4 I guess) Scam 419s (Google it!) and I haven’t been using online dating long. What really sucks is that you spend time (and emotional energy) getting to know ‘someone’, who seems interested in you, only to then realise that it’s been a waste of time as they’re just out to get your money…
what do you know about http://www.chinalove.com? Could that be categorized as a scam web? You actually have to buy credits to have your emails translated…and the women who answer back also use your credits to translate their answer to your emails…the correspondence can become pretty expensive….what do you do? You can get their address but they dont have a translation service after you get out of the website!!
There is a large series of inter-connected sites, owned by Russians, that are set up strictly to make money by charging translation fees with fake ladies. This company is called ‘Interlingvo’. Asiansweetlove is one of these, and there are HUNDREDS more.
Never use the in house translation service on any dating site. If you can’t pick and pay for a translator of your choice, independent of the site, or one the ‘lady’ suggests, you are probably getting scammed.
chinalove also has problems with this type of scam, but it may be due to activity by fraudulent INDEPENDENT agencies that operate within Chinalove.
With Chinese ladies, you may also be talking through a ‘translator/broker’, a person who will write emails for the lady, and often the lady has no input. If the lady marries the man….then the translator/broker gets paid. SO, they only get paid if the lady marries a suitor they’ve arranged and translated for. The translator/brokers also do a lot of fraudulent stuff to get a guy to China to meet a lady. ‘Bait and switch’ is common. The guy gets off the plane to meet ‘his love’, and is met by the Translator/Broker with a girl different than in the pictures he’s been sent, and who he thought he had been writing to. ‘You no like? I have other girl you no like this one.’
Do your homework, guys….
This woman is probably a scammer, her name is linda yingwei o linda wei.
I say this ´cause she was coming to my country, and the day of boarding her plane, which was not allowed ´cause she was not carrying enough cash to travel.
Then she sent me this email:
My dear Efren,
You are a good man! lt’s very sad that l could not meet up with my trip to see you inperson. l am very sad and my mood is not ok too! Actually l didn’t know that l will have such amount before l could travel out. The immigration officers said that l should possess enough money before l could travel out of china. 20,000 yuan minimun, equivalent of 3,000 dollars!
l told them that l have some one to take care of me and l am going as a tourist, but l was made to understand that it’s neccessary l should have the money before l could board in! Dear Efren this is so sad for me because l didn’t have such amount!
l want to give you all my heart and soul Efren! We are yet to meet inperson and you are showing me a lot of care! May God bless you for me!
Yesterday my uncle was able to give me 10,000 yuan, equivalent of 1,500 dollars and if l add your, then all the money l have now is 1,700 dollars. l still need about 1,300 dollars to complete the whole amount, then my trip will be possible!
l really want to make this trip because l have invested all my time, and energy into it. Of course l desire to meet you too dear Efren.
lf you can get this amount for me, then when l arrived in merida, you will have it back and return to the owners in case you borrowed it from someone.
l will be so glad if you can do this for our own happiness and future! lf everything works out fine, then l will reconfirm my ticket tomorrow. Let me know what you think ok!
l will send you text messages tonight.
l wish you a very happy and peaceful day!
Yours
Linda
You judge this matter.
Hoping that this is helpful to other men, i say goodbye.
Greetings, efren.
The answer is simple: NEVER SEND MONEY TO SOMEONE YOU HAVE NOT MET.
This rule applies to all situation, no matter how pretty or convincing the girl is. There are professional scammers that know exactly what to say to trigger love-sick foreigners to send money overseas. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM.
-Nils (Dr.Smile)
I’ve been on an adventure trying to determine if one can find love this way, and I would like to relate some experiences here. About a year ago, I was sucked into the chnlove translation thing. Okay, after spending some money, I figured out whoever was communicating with me couldn’t be bothered to answer simple questions, which I kept asking, letter after letter. I broke that off really fast and moved on. Moral of that story, do not use translation services. I don’t care if they seem legitimate…in the long run, you WANT to be communicating directly with whoever you are interested in.
Okay, on to look for free web sites…I found a few, and then settled on focusing on a web site that charges you for one month to collect contact information. This seems reasonable, since I can browse and request info from hundreds of ladies if I wish. I can then send messages via the web site, and they almost always respond. This was very nice, and they seemed fairly genuine.
Well, one lady writes to me and she seems like a really sweet lady. Her thoughts seem very romantic, and after several months she still has not asked for any money, so I’m thinking “Cool. I don’t think I’m being scammed.” One thing is odd, though – I practically beg her to chat online with me more often, but she claims she is too busy to chat except for a very specific time frame on saturday morning. I kinda let it slide and think that “Sure, they don’t know me, and they have a life that doesn’t include me yet”
It gets close to China National Day, and she tells me she has to go on vacation with her parents, but she will write to me if she can. By this time, I’m wishing I could fly to China and meet her, because she seems really nice and has not suggested anything that is disrespectful to me or ask for money or anything, only saying “I will be waiting here for you when you can come”. Very sweet, huh?
Well, she supposedly goes on vacation and I never hear from her again. I do the old WTF for a few weeks, before it becomes clear I will not hear from her again. At this point, I’m glad I didn’t send any presents to her (she gave me a mailing address, and we exchanged contact information, but no telephone numbers)
Now, on to the next…bingo. I finally found someone I can trust. Same web site, and we communicate using skype, yahoo and send texts to each other on phone. We use webcam, so we both know we are talking to who we think we are talking to. Her english is basic, but very charming that she can speak and understand enough. Of course, I am learning Chinese, too. We mostly use translation software, so we can get our thoughts and feelings across, and this is the woman I definitely want to invest time and money and emotional energy into. This is a story I believe will continue for the rest of my life, so far.
Well, you might think this is the end of this entry, but you would be wrong. Recently, I get an e-mail out of the blue from the lady who went on vacation. I notice her english is REALLY bad, and after I get over my anger at having been “dumped” without a word, I try to find out more about what she has been doing. As best as I can determine, SHE was paying a translation agency in China to communicate for her, and this agency cheated her out of money somehow. Apparently, this agency edited the messages, photos and videos I sent to her, so she did not receive some of the messages I sent to her. She says she is very angry at this agency, and that she still likes me very much…
…wow…you can imagine how tragic this is for her, since I am no longer interested in her and if she has indeed spent months waiting for something from this agency then I am really sorry for her. After a little bit of painful communication where I make it clear that I am interested in another woman now and can not be more than pen pals now, I am sure that she is a very nice lady and deserves better than the way this agency seems to have treated her. She is beautiful and would be a good catch for any sincere man. On one level, I am very angry at this agency she used, because of course I have no idea if any of the words in the past are even ones that this lady wrote, and also because they denied her a chance at honest communication with someone she might have been happy with.
It all sounds a bit like a Chinese opera, I know…and maybe someone should post some references to stories like this.
The final moral of the story: it is possible to meet someone this way, but it is VERY HARD. We, as humans, tend to trust others much too easily sometimes. Until you are able to SEE the other person, and HEAR their voice and interact with them as much as possible, despite the distance, there is a high probability that you will be wasting your time. Even if they never ask for money.
Thanks for reading. If any of you all want some insight or a second opinion on how to handle your online communications with someone special, I’d love to help as much as I can. We live in a global society now, with wonderful ways to communicate, but we have to be very selective and careful about how we do it.
- No Games
Dear No Games,
My advice is to check the lady who skype and Yahoo and sms or text to you as well. I came across a similar person who is in my opinion playing games too as I realise now.
I will mention two letters YY and if its the same and with a telephone ending with 093, than its the same person be careful as its pure game she plays including on the skype or yahoo chat well as a red flower.
She can disappear for weeks and also come up with rediculous stories. It will be heartbreaking.
I hope its not the same person, but if it is, sad for you too.
Danny
I have a horrible exsperiance in liuzhou Guangxi China…, where I was communicating with a lady supposed to be in Nanning city, Gaungxi for 1 year from cherryblossoms.com…, long story short I meet this lady and she relocated to liuzhou in this year communication at the Gulin airport near liuzhou and was nothere but close looking and found out later she was switched by the translator about half way in our communication cause the “THE REAL Li Juan Tang from Nanning married some one else”…and this lady dumps her younger sister on me in Guilin 2 days later and said lost confidence…, long story short this woman was a tramp and liar and freshly divorced 2 days prior to my arrival in China !! So stay away from online monthly pay date sites and find one in a social site or best bet go to Guangzhou and found one your self…, thy are aggesive and easy to find and met one with in 2 hours of my check in after leaving the hotel to look for a place to eat….Yes Man I love those Chinese Tenderlions !
Yes… hmm seems my suspicions have been correct all along… bummer.. however, I aint givin up.. so Joe, how does one meet these girls in real life? Are you talking about street girls or are there any meeting places, dances, single mixers, etc? It seems the thing to do is start one of our own.. or just go over there, write a few hundred and tell them t meet you at a certain place at a certain time and if they do not show up then they will miss out on the “gift” you have for them.. Shit there I go, wanting to be abusive too.. it seems now that since they have tricked me fr so long that it i fair play to promise wonderful things, use them and then walk away… but that is so wrong cause invariably we would find a sincere one and break her heart…. but there has to be a way to accomplish what we set out to do…. any suggestions? other then going here and doing the above without the gift thing… thanks!! PS any way to send a letter certified with return requested, you know the green card requiring Identification?? Thanks… perhaps I will go there and start a “verification service”. :-}
wowwwwwwww what an experience i had from chinese to ukrain its amazing well im not sure about chinalove and i cant comment from this point but being on the site for quite a while u need to be carefull i have met some loverly ladys and flicked the scammers and married a chinese girl from shandong she is loverly soooooooo far im happy but in a comment from one client mentioning linda zhang wowww is she a dooooaaa and a girl from nanning
Has anyone ever heard of the girls getting paid to write to the men?
Yes, there are all sorts of scams in this world.
Some girls are not even girls, just some guy in another country pretending to be a girl. Some girls are web cam models, hoping to make $5 per minute to do sexy dancing on the web cam. Some girls are students with a financial problems that just want to pay some bills. There are all kinds of people in this world.
The most important thing to remember is to get the girl to show her face on a web cam, and then NEVER EVER send money to a girl you have not met in person. Period.
-Dr. Smile
hiiiiiiii i wish all uuuuuu guys all the best in the future because uu will need it there is so many problems with scammers but as the boys say never send money and use email and skype for u safety its all there guys there is so much trickery in world its a sad ending all the best keith b