Charlene AKA Britishdetained.

[JimOttley]

what are the reasons why they are both in prison?

from her posts because they didnt pay everyone off after getting arrested,so far i only have her reasons.

i dont believe they are in jail for no reason,i think its called fraud and would you let anyone you know to use a company which offers to help you with a visa

As a quick summary and I will probably be very wrong in some of this so please correct me where I am wrong but I thought that they opened the business it ran for maybe 6 months a couple of the employees appear to have started their own entrapment business stealing money from clients through asking for funds to be sent direct to them via Western Union or direct bank deposits. These employees then appeared to cover their fraud by accusing the owners of the same and reporting the owners to the police and accusing them of running an illegal recruitment business?

Kevin got banged up because he was a whitey foreigner and easy target, attempts were made to extract bribes from Kevin and given that he had no money the extortionists were unsuccessful.

Charlene had bankrolled the business and it would appear that they simply did not have the cash to bribe the right people to get them out of the pokey.

So now they are both in the slammer and everyone else will just go and get on with their lives :(

Again I may be wrong but that is what I took from the posts and I am just working from memory as it was a couple of months back when I first joined the forum.

They had issues similar to mine for getting annulment and getting UK citizenship for their kids which is why I followed their story.

Jim

[Arturo]

As a quick summary and I will probably be very wrong in some of this so please correct me where I am wrong but I thought that they opened the business it ran for maybe 6 months a couple of the employees appear to have started their own entrapment business stealing money from clients through asking for funds to be sent direct to them via Western Union or direct bank deposits. These employees then appeared to cover their fraud by accusing the owners of the same and reporting the owners to the police and accusing them of running an illegal recruitment business?

Kevin got banged up because he was a whitey foreigner and easy target, attempts were made to extract bribes from Kevin and given that he had no money the extortionists were unsuccessful.

Charlene had bankrolled the business and it would appear that they simply did not have the cash to bribe the right people to get them out of the pokey.

So now they are both in the slammer and everyone else will just go and get on with their lives :(

Again I may be wrong but that is what I took from the posts and I am just working from memory as it was a couple of months back when I first joined the forum.

They had issues similar to mine for getting annulment and getting UK citizenship for their kids which is why I followed their story.

Jim

I have not followed this story too closely..but it came up just after my return from Manila.

We had looked at my options for working in Phils or starting a business !

That idea was kicked in the head and everything is on hold now until I get back to Manila in January.

However, it strikes me that for a country supposedly wanting overseas investers and start up business to aid employment.... banging up any white guy without bail...is not really going to be a good incentive.

Imagine the CEO of Coke being banged up coz some tow rag accused him of something illegal!

The philippines is very much liek a Rose...looks good but has sharp thorns at times....

[joebloggs]

The philippines is very much liek a Rose...looks good but has sharp thorns at times....

true, but how many pinoys have been conned by employment agencies and fake job scams not a week goes by without someone asking if a job offer is a scam

[Tawi2]

To be honest most of the pinays I know who have been offered fake jobs and scam vacancies have been targeted by conmen from west africa or pinas itself,west africans are notorious for such scams but pinoy conmen have copied their techniques,I know a woman earlier this year who lost 200k to a nigerian purporting to be English who offered her a job as a nanny,poverty is the mother of deception.

[Arturo]

true, but how many pinoys have been conned by employment agencies and fake job scams not a week goes by without someone asking if a job offer is a scam

True, and I have helped a friend of my fiance by checking out teh UK side of the offers....

[Tawi2]

True, and I have helped a friend of my fiance by checking out teh UK side of the offers....

I have done that exact same thing several times,twice dialled phones that were answered in heavily african accented english which comes as quite a surprise when your phoning a supposed widowed english doctor like Dr James Alexander Smith who sadly can only afford to pay his nanny £20 an hour and cant afford to buy her a top of the range vehicle so would she be able to settle for a small mercedes instead?One letter even partially describes the types of food she would find in the refrigerator

[Arthur Little]

Aye, it's a risky business, right enough ... You can never really be sure of the staff you hire in such enterprises.

Anyway, having only sort of half-followed this sad tale, all I can say is, "hopefully brighter times lie ahead for Charlene, Kevin and the family!"

[bornatbirth]

Aye, it's a risky business, right enough ... You can never really be sure of the staff you hire in such enterprises.

Anyway, having only sort of half-followed this sad tale, all I can say is, "hopefully brighter times lie ahead for Charlene, Kevin and the family!"

quite right,arthur

and if you do,make sure you can afford a good lawyer and to pay everyone off

[JimOttley]

I have not followed this story too closely..but it came up just after my return from Manila.

We had looked at my options for working in Phils or starting a business !

That idea was kicked in the head and everything is on hold now until I get back to Manila in January.

However, it strikes me that for a country supposedly wanting overseas investers and start up business to aid employment.... banging up any white guy without bail...is not really going to be a good incentive.

Imagine the CEO of Coke being banged up coz some tow rag accused him of something illegal!

The philippines is very much liek a Rose...looks good but has sharp thorns at times....

It's scale, the big investors are fine it's the small guys that are at risk.

I think you need to be there on the ground managing everything very carefully on a day to day basis, it's hard enough running a business in the UK but trying the same trick in a country where you just look like an open wallet to all and sundry is foolhardy.

There was a chap on here the other day who reported having his entire investment stolen by the father in law! You really need to know any potential business partners really really well.


Jim