Is this your
girlfriend?

If so, you're the one and
only lucky one, or you are
the victim of a scam by one
of the many, many
scammers using this picture
of a well-known Filipino
model as theirs.

BEWARE!

The Concerned Neighbor.

Our client had been in a relationship with his girlfriend for quite some time already. He had visited her in her town
in Mindanao several times. Her family was poor, so he sent money to her in order for them to improve their simple
home. She sent our client photos via e-mail showing the new bathroom etc., added to the house. Then the shock
comes. Our client started to receive e-mails from someone calling herself his friend. The e-mails stated that the
sender felt so bad seeing him being deceived out of his money, so after asking God for advice, she decided to tell
him the truth: The money he was sending was spent on a boyfriend, not the house. The pictures he had received
were taken in a new house being built in a development nearby. His girlfriend was out with her lover almost every
night, spending his money. Our client was devastated. How could he have misjudged this girl that way, spending
thousands of dollars on her and her family? He decided to contact us. Our investigation found out the following:
The house had been expanded and improved. It had a new roof, an additional bedroom, a bathroom and toilet,
and new paint. The girlfriend lived at home, she didn't have a lover or boyfriend around. The monetary support she
got from our client was spent on food and necessities, and the balance deposited in a savings account. So what
about the friend of our client who "had to tell him the truth"? She turned out to be a neighbor of our client's
girlfriend. Actually supposed to be a childhood friend. She was poor, and so was her boyfriend. Our agent was
able to get her to confess that she got so envious of our client's girlfriend, seeing all the improvements to the
house, the good food the family was eating, and listening to her talking about moving to the US. The neighbor and
her boyfriend together devised the plan to bring this girl back to earth. They followed her to the nearby Internet café
one day, and got our client's e-mail address. Then they started to e-mail him. Actually the boyfriend was doing the
e-mail as the girl didn't know how to use a computer.

End of Story: Our client and his girlfriend are happily married and living in a southern state in the US. The neighbor
moved out of her parents' home and is living with her partner in crime, her boyfriend.


The "Nurse"

Our client from Down Under, was helplessly in love. He had supported this girl through the last year of her nursing
classes in college, and now she had finally graduated, passed her nursing board exam, got a visa, and was ready
to travel to meet her loved one. Our client sent her money for the plane ticket. When she failed to arrive, he got
concerned. He called the airline she was supposed to travel on, and they had no records of her. Then he received
a disturbing phone call from his girlfriend’s cell phone. Somebody who introduced herself as his girlfriend’s sister
was the caller. She told our client that his girlfriend had changed her mind with her travel arrangements, and
decided to travel to Canada first to see her brother who worked there. She had got into a terrible car accident and
was in intensive care in a hospital there. She urgently needed money for the hospital bills. The sister asked him to
send the money to her in the Philippines as she was traveling to Canada the next day to be with her sister. Now
our client got a little suspicious as the sister’s voice sounded exactly as his girlfriend’s. Also she failed to give him
the name of the hospital where his girlfriend was. He asked us to investigate the status of his girlfriend. He sent us
copies of all documents his girlfriend had sent him before, scanned copies of passport, visa page, college
diploma, and certificate of board examination.

Our investigation revealed the following: Philippine passport, forgery. Visa page, forgery. (The visa for the
Australia was an altered US visa. Even had the US Dept of State seal) College Diploma, forgery. Certificate of
Board Exam, forgery. No Philippine government agency had any records of a person with her name and birth date
ever living in the city she claimed to be from.

End of story: Our client was out of a total of $16,000. A check with the law enforcement authorities in the
Philippines revealed that even if we found the girlfriend, there were no laws in the Philippines she could be
charged with. She had not used the forged documents for any official purposes, and the money was sent to her as
gifts, no strings attached.