well actually all in the last week on a filipino dating site i'm registered with encountered both novice and pro scammer.


on the same week first had contact with a novice scammer

she is 18yr nursing student from zambales, within a few hrs of chatting she expressed her interest for me to visit her in her province sometimes in febuary 2010 which I accepted. on day 2 of chatting she wanted a laptop and asked to bring one for her in febuary, I declined this request and told her my first visit to her is really 'getting to know each other type of visit' and won't be bringing any luxery items such as laptops etc.. to her just yet(due to past experience) if everything will be fine on first visit and she accept me in person and I accept her and make second visit then she can have as many laptops in the world she wants.

Well, soon after bcoz of this she decided i'm a waste of space and stopped contact with me and moved on to the next man which I don't mind as I have successfully managed to weed out someone whose only interest in me is the laptop I will bring to her.


So now to the pro scammer:

on same week while on this dating site and instant message request popped up from a girl 26, apparently she liked my profile and will like to chat, she looks ok so I accepted and we moved over to yahoo messenger.

During our conversation, she sent me 4 other pics of her can't verify if the person in the pics is who I was chatting to as she made an excuse when I asked her to go on webcam.

So she claimed she already been to UK last year, she was invited by her ex-boyfriend to UK on visitor VISA and spent couple of months here, she then said she packed her bags and returned back to phils when she found out her bfriend she was with in UK was cheating on her with another woman. I sais I find this very hard to believe and I said I couldnt understand how a man can go through hassle of travelling to phils to date and filipino woman, get her VISA and bring her to England only to start cheating on her, this I find very hard to believe but she insisted that was what happened. She asked where I live, I said cambridge. Then I asked her where she lived when she was in England, she returned back with huntingdon and said very close to me. It immediately struck me how well she spelled huntingdon correctly even I struggle with correct spelling which make me think she might have quickly typed in google search something like "cities near cambridge" and just copied and pasted one of the result.

Ok, so to cut a long story short, she invited me over to phils and she will also like to visit UK again and would love to come back with me on my first visit to her but first we must arrange her visitors VISA in advance of my visit. So I said sure I'll help out, and aske what can I do to help. I already know what documents is needed to apply for visitors VISA but I asked her what she needs then she listed as below

invitation letter
bank statements -6 months
wage slips -6 months
zoom or western union transfer receipts *


I asked why zoom or western union tranfer receipts, she said it's needed to show I supported her already in phils and will continue to support her if she arrive in England. With this she is giving me hints to send money to her via zoom or western union so we can have the receipt as evidence in VISA application.

now, i'm 100% sure as soon as I send her money via zoom or western union to get the receipt she claim is needed for VISA she will dissappear without trace and grining all the way to the bank, or she might even stay in contact to see if she can milk me more


two reasons I think she is a pro scammer:

1) She cunningly avoided contacting me on the dating site with direct message which I can later use to track her profile and report to site admin for deletion. She used almost untraceable popup IM instead. scammers hate having to keep re-creating profiles after one profile is exposed as scam so her method ensures her profile never get reported to site admin so she can keep using the same profile for years

2) The cunning way she probably used google search to nearly convince me she already been to England and know this cities


what do you all think about her claim using zoom or western union receipts as part of evidence for visitor VISA application?