A young filipina marries an older guy, in the philippines, with not intentions of ever migrating to his home country. The scam is to get him to support her/family by getting one hundred to two hundred dollars a month from him, leading him to believe that she will go to live with him as soon as the visa is approved. However, she/family purposely foul-up the processing of the paper work to prolong/prevent the approval, with the intentions of keeping the money/support coming as long as they can. Meanwhile, she continues with other sideline scams to provide for the family. Of course, the whole family and neighborhood all know about it but playact to provide a front.

Has anyone ever heard of such a scam?

Yes, I have heard of similar scams from a couple posters on here in the last year. Indonesian women, or such, meeting a man on line and asking them to send money to start a visa process, promising to come to their country and marry them.

Why, do you believe you are being scammed this way ?

I have heard of this scam many times over the years.

Please have a look at these links Internet Love Scams (http://www.internet-love-scams.org/) and Looks Too Good To Be True (http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/) they have a lot of info about all different kinds of scams.

Nothing uncommon about this, a similar dating or marriage scam is done thousands of times a year.

That's one of the poorest scam idea I've ever heard. First, because it takes forever and half a million to millions of pesos to have an annullment here. She will have a hard time to marry the one she really likes. She could just have asked for money without marrying. If that stops go to the next victim.

Secondly, she could have just gone to US, get Citizenship and divorce is she's just scaming, work, earn thousand of dollars than barely hundred of pesos. Stupid. Very Stupid.

Anyway, there's such thing called karma no matter how inferior her style is.

It may be poor but they do the scams anyway, Like if she has lead several guys to believe she will marry them then she isn't relying on one persons check so it doesn't matter how long it takes for one to come in.

Sadly some of it are true... I'm a filipina and I've heard and seen such thing to...
Now to all the guys who are meeting someone online specially from a different country that's more poor than your's. You'll know that the woman/ person have a different motive if she ask for money, or kept on making herself pathetic in your eyes then you'll know.
But if you're the one who kept on insisting to give even though she's telling you not to... Well that's a different story.

sadly some of it are true...I'm a filipina and I've heard and seen such thing to...
now to all the guys who are meeting someone online specially from a different country that's more poor than your's. you'll know that the woman/ person have a different motive if she ask for money, or kept on making herself pathetic in your eyes then you'll know.
but if you're the one who kept on insisting to give even though she's telling you not to... Well that's a different story.

I agree to a certain extent. However, some of these people will keep in contact and not ask for money, but they will gain your trust first. They will turn down money, until they have you insisting on sending money to them. It's the old... "hook, line, and sinker" trick. They will bait you, wait for you to bite, and then they will reel you in. That is when they know that they have your trust, and then they will bait and switch. The money was the initial goal, but some know if they are patient, that they can get more money from you. It's an age old game.

I have heard of this scam many times over the years.

Please have a look at these links Internet Love Scams (http://www.internet-love-scams.org/) and Looks Too Good To Be True (http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/) they have a lot of info about all different kinds of scams.

Based on my personal experience, the Internet Love Scams website is highly suspicious and dubious. I would not implicitly trust their advice - they are also extremely rude.

Closed, this is a old thread,

And yes there are 1000's of dating scams I get emails wanting contract at least 2 or 3 per day.