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    THE GIRL WHO WASN'T

    Our client had been in constant communication with a beautiful girl in Southern Mindanao.   He even visited
    her. It turns out that the girl, Jeannie,  was being used by her cousin and other family members to generate
    income.  The ring leader was her cousin, Jay.   He was threatening her to continue helping him to get
    money from men like our client.  Jay got about $40,000 from our client only,  over the course of a year, by
    using different girls to contact him and then telling them what to say and how to keep the money flowing.  
    Jeannie finally confessed to the whole thing. Jay was the "girl" that our client was communicating with until
    he traveled to the Philippines to meet her. At that time Jay recruited his cousin from another city, to act as
    the girl our client had been communicating with.  So the original Jeannie was not even a real person.  She
    was created by Jay to attract men from various countries.  Jay also forged documents such as Western
    Union receipts, and used fake IDs and many aliases to keep the money coming in. NBI is now looking into
    the case. (The real names and locations have been withheld so not to compromise the case)



    THE WEB CAM CASE

    A concerned client contacted us from the US. He had been in a relationship over the Internet with this girl
    from Angeles City for several months. It had started as a so-called web cam relationship. From there it
    evolved into romance. The girl seemed to have real feelings for her client, he became more than a client,
    and one day she confessed she had fallen in love with him. She told him  she had to do the web cam work
    in order to support her studies to become a nurse, and to help her poor family.  Our client sent her some
    money to help her with her tuition fees, and to assist with some medical expenses for her father.  He made
    a deal with her to stop the web cam business with other men, and he sent her some more money so she
    could have him as the sole customer. One day our client gets an email from another girl, who said she was
    a cousin of our client's girlfriend, and she told our client he was being scammed out of money along with
    several other American and Canadian men.

    Our client contracted us to find out if this was true, and if so, report this to the local law enforcement. So
    we did. The address given was a shabby apartment complex. In one of the apartments, our client's
    "girlfriend worked with five other girls in, what reminded me of a call center operation. The girls even had a
    "supervisor", an American guy, who gave them advice on what to reply to the various customers, and how
    to get their customers to send them money above and beyond the regular hourly fees.

    The operation was financed and controlled from the United States. Imagine, foreigners using Filipinas to
    scam other foreigners. Well, the NBI was made aware of what was going on. However, neighbors informed
    the girls they were being watched by law enforcement. The operation shut down one night, and a moving
    truck transported the girls, the computers, and the furniture to another unknown location.