I find it very interesting to watch all the different forms of scamming that people get into in different low-pay countries, just because they think all men from Western nations are rich.
New Translation Love Scam from China
I will try to report the latest scams in my blog here. But, feel free to send me any email you have with information about new scams, if you see something interesting.
The latest scam from China involves some very innocent looking – but pretty – girls from China.
First they will send you a few simple emails in English, but then quickly try to get you to sign into one of their free membership sites – AsianSweetLove. But, the catch is you must pay money to translate each email to the girl!
This is particularly gross since you can use the free web site from Google Translate that works wonders. If you need to translate any love letters or email in Chinese or Thai for a girl that speaks little English, just use the free Google translate service. It is not a 100% perfect in translation, but it is certainly 95% – or enough to make any girl understand your meaning.
I even use the Google translation web site when I am online chatting with an Asian girl, in real time. The girls are normally very impressed when I send Chinese or Thai sentences over Yahoo! messenger or MSN. (smile)
Free Google Translation to Chinese and Thai
With this Chinese love-scam it is very possible that no girl is receiving your romantic emails, but this is probably an internet sweat-shop with rows of people hovering over their computers, solely interested in fleecing your Western valet to collect some money.
Be aware and stay away from these web sites. I do not know anything positive – or real love, that comes from this.
However, these girls always look so cute! – I wish they were really available online for chatting and more. So sad, but I guess that is why so many guys get sucked in. (smile)
- Doctor Smile
July 12th, 2009 at 22:55
it really is a scam no buts period.
desireemay
November 1st, 2009 at 17:15
I’ve had a few (about 4 I guess) Scam 419s (Google it!) and I haven’t been using online dating long. What really sucks is that you spend time (and emotional energy) getting to know ’someone’, who seems interested in you, only to then realise that it’s been a waste of time as they’re just out to get your money…
February 17th, 2010 at 17:55
what do you know about http://www.chinalove.com? Could that be categorized as a scam web? You actually have to buy credits to have your emails translated…and the women who answer back also use your credits to translate their answer to your emails…the correspondence can become pretty expensive….what do you do? You can get their address but they dont have a translation service after you get out of the website!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 05:01
There is a large series of inter-connected sites, owned by Russians, that are set up strictly to make money by charging translation fees with fake ladies. This company is called ‘Interlingvo’. Asiansweetlove is one of these, and there are HUNDREDS more.
Never use the in house translation service on any dating site. If you can’t pick and pay for a translator of your choice, independent of the site, or one the ‘lady’ suggests, you are probably getting scammed.
chinalove also has problems with this type of scam, but it may be due to activity by fraudulent INDEPENDENT agencies that operate within Chinalove.
With Chinese ladies, you may also be talking through a ‘translator/broker’, a person who will write emails for the lady, and often the lady has no input. If the lady marries the man….then the translator/broker gets paid. SO, they only get paid if the lady marries a suitor they’ve arranged and translated for. The translator/brokers also do a lot of fraudulent stuff to get a guy to China to meet a lady. ‘Bait and switch’ is common. The guy gets off the plane to meet ‘his love’, and is met by the Translator/Broker with a girl different than in the pictures he’s been sent, and who he thought he had been writing to. ‘You no like? I have other girl you no like this one.’
Do your homework, guys….