I love it when I get a girl trying to scam me. I always play along. I “wire” the money to them right away. And send a photo of the receipt etc. But never send the money. I then say I sent you $5000 dollars why didn’t you get it? Go back to the bank ! Drives them crazy trying to get the cash.

NEVER send money. The scamming is made worse by the overwhelming simping that is going on. Lonely dudes need to STOP this. And you all know who you are. Have a strict policy, no meeting, NO money.

On behalf of those filipina who brings shame to my country i apologize. I felt awful and disgusted.

Having zero social media presence is your 2nd best defense against the bonus scam. Not exposing yourself on camera is the best defense.

How strange we men are: we would not ask the elderly neighbour if we can mow his/her lawn, but we send thousands €/$ to virtual women all over the world.😮

A Filipina has been taking my money for 25 years now...She keeps telling me it is because we are married....lol

It's a simple rule: never ever under any circumstances send money to a girl in the Philippines. A girl from a good family, brought up properly, would rather die than ask for money. It's just not done. And the Philippines is full of these kind of girls.

If you ever plan on building a home in the Philippines Never put the land in anyone's name. Your better off going through a lawyer to help and lease the land for 10-25 years. That way if something should ever happen between you two she can't take possession of the property and kick you out. If you plan on taking her back to your home country and property you own have it put in your son or daughters name. Again you can have a lawyer set it up to where your leasing the land from your child. That way you don't have to worry about your kids having to pay any death tax. Also if your Filipino wife gets westernize she can't divorce you and take your home. I have never met a women to ever keep their word. When they are with you they say they would never do anything to hurt you until you or they break-up with you. That's when all they want to do is hurt you. Protect yourself at all cost.

# 4: This happened to me in Thailand. A lady I was seeing messaged me saying she was pregnant. Said she was 100% SURE I was the father. When I said the child could not be mine, she threatened to go to police & immigration if I didn’t cough up money for an abortion. That conversation was shut down hard when I messaged her an image of my vasectomy certificate. VASECTOMY…350 dollars PLANE TICKET ….800 dollars MONTHLY LIVING EXPENSES ….2000 dollars Not EVER having to worry about getting anyone pregnant-PRICELESS. There’s some things money can’t buy, for everything else, there’s Mastercard.

I had some really bad experiences with both Filipinas and Thai until I looked for a girl already here in the UK. I am now 55 and my filipina wife is 43 and we have a wonderful 6 year old daughter. It just made more sense. Prior to that I had multiple scam relationships, even after to flying out and checking things out for myself. The families will play along with it all. Even if they are married the husband will go along with it and let you bonk his missus just to get money from a foreigner. Mike is right. They are smart AND patient.

Good that you remove the mask of the SCAMMERS...thank you....

Being single is looking so much better with every video😂

Hey Mike I herd about that guy that sent all his money over there to buy land and build a house and when he got there in Manila airport she never answered his phone calls and then like you said he went to the address and found an empty lot she was married and built the house for her family! Lucky there was a very nice Philippine family that helped him and he went to the berangy chief and told him the story he gave them pictures of the house and videos and they actually found her and she’s in jail!!

When I was in the Navy, my lady friend and I where in action, and the condom broke. She said don't worry, I'll take care if there is an issue. Well, I picked her off me real fast! I took care of the issue. I told her I was too young to have a kid. After I left, she sent me many letters, always looking for $$$. I liked her and empathize for her situation. Many years later, my American wife raked me for $400k and has primary of my son. I think the first scam would of been cheaper.

Listen ! This man really knows the truth !

Scams I saw when I was single My ex attacked me......I have to pay 3500 pesos to file police report. Go to do a VC and she goes to the refrigerator and shows me it's empty. Gal says it's her birthday and asks for a transfer as she has no money for a gift. The phone scam happened so often I stopped counting. I did meet my fiance after awhile but learned a lot along the way. Yall be careful!!

The best advice I've heard from all the ex-pat vloggers is to wait until you get over there before you even start looking for a girl

Hello Mike and all the people reading these comments. Things I have seen in the Philippines… Back in 2006 when memory cards were relatively small it was necessary to go to the online cafés to remove your pictures from your camera cards onto a disk as a means of saving them. In the Internet cafés I saw many times very attractive women chatting their foreign boyfriends on messenger, but on the screen I would notice that they would be chatting about four at the same time. I’m sure the foreigners were not even aware of that but it made me think back to a time I was chatting A Filipina and during the chat I could tell that she was typing and her eyes would move to different parts of the screen so I am now aware of what was going on. I have more stories like this but I will break this up to another comment. By the way don’t hold Filipinas only in judgment of this because I am sure this happens around the world.

My wife has been in America 1 year. I drank a few times but nothing to serious but she place a year long restraining order on me and now lives with her co workers who is also a Filipina. They work at the hospital and she only worked there a month and half before running away

I was scammed here in Philippines I've lived here 7 year's my first gf was a professional scammer Blackmail is a huge problem here

Rule #1 for me is anyone from Angeles City is an instant deal breaker. Also, many scammers are slick but will reveal everything on Facebook and Instagram. There's nothing wrong with a little sleuthing. They do it too. And you're right Mike professional scammers regardless of wherever they're from have a sixth sense. They find a weakness and attack it. As soon as the red flags appear bail out and don't worry about hurting people's feelings. Cheers from Cebu City. :)

Don’t buy anything, or get in on a business deal. Rent a place to live. Rent a girlfriend. If you need a vehicle, buy a cheap car or a scooter. I would live in a place where everything is close by, so I wouldn’t need a vehicle. Walking is good exercise. For other good tips, keep watching this channel, Sunshine Shoulders, Filipina Pea and others.

I was scammed by my fiancé from Cebu. After two years of Facebook chat, we met in Manila and traveled all over the Philippines together. Everything was great . This was in 2019. In 2020, I couldn’t return because of the pandemic. In 2021, I did a little research and discovered she became pregnant with a local. Fortunately I didn’t send her all that much money to help her along when Typhoon Odette struck Cebu . I’m thinking that she was groomed by her friends. Looks like scam #4 but her pregnancy was way after my visit with her. When I discovered who her boyfriend was, looking at his profile, I discovered their relationship.

I had an older male friend who fell for a younger woman in a chat room. She lived in Russia and said she always wanted to be a veterinarian but couldn't afford the schooling. He ended up sending her money every month for several years. She would send him pics of her in a white lab coat, and similar photos, as "proof" she had gotten a job as a vet tech. Then, all of sudden, she decides she doesn't like that work, and wants to be something different, plus she can no longer afford her apartment. By this time, my friend had lost his job (it was 2008) yet she still insisted he continue to send her money or her life would be ruined. I kept telling him he was being scammed, but he wouldn't listen. It only sunk in -- when he could not longer afford his own apartment -- that he was a fool to keep sending her money. Sad. The thing is, this whole thing could have been fake, since it was all done over the Internet. It could have been some guys pretending to be a young woman, and they were doing a similar scam with several men at a time. We are living in strange times.

Yes Mike I be their and done it so I stop online chatting for 4 years. Been talking to a Filipino women for 3months now. Ist thing she made clear when she told me I don't want your money I have my own money and my parents owns 2 stores in manila. So their doing pretty well one day she told me her phone broke and I was waiting for her to ask me for $ my heart dropped cuz I thought she was different 3 days go by without hearing from her and low and behold she called me crying at the phone store with a brand new phone she said she was crying because she missed talking to me. I video chat with her daily and she shows me her family and around Alapo city sometimes I spend hours with her family inter acting with customers at their store I pray she's the one.

Hi Mike, I was a victim of #3 but thankfully only $100. I was told that her mother needed to go to the hospital and see a doctor about problems that were internal, after about a week she was asking for more so I just ghosted her and it all just became a bad dream. I still want to go the Philippines so I didn't get soured by the Country or the People

I can see how much this means to you - It's really great that you would take this time to warn people of the reality of scammers. I truly hope this prepares people and gives them warning...

Salamat Mike for the topic…i was scammed for over two years to a Filipina for a new phone…an apt and nursing school tuition…and finally a long expensive annulment…then after visiting and returning home discovered she had a philipino bf …only thing that saved me was my three simple preset Boundaries of don’t lie don’t cheat or ask me for money…so when that happened it was over …thought i was safe because she grew up next door to my Filipina goddaughter here in the usa …the long term scam can work well

I was scammed by a Ugandan girl 1) phone scam just like you said 2) she was only earning $90 USD a month. And it cost more to live if she wanted to eat. 3) her mom died, and her daughter was in the hospital. 4) she lost her job and needed $60 for rent 5) Then she needed money for furniture.

As a Behaviorist I found myself being fooled about 10 years ago! I was teaching in South Korea and met a French woman online. Her picture was great and she was beautiful, she was visiting in Nigeria and had lost her passport.She was asking for help so she could get a new one. Well, up till then I had no doubts, however, this gave me pause.So I started to pay attention and what I found out after reading her letters more carefully.It seemed that more than one person was writing, that she would never capitalize her "I". So, I became the Behaviorist that I am and started to check her out. What I found out was "she" wasn't a "she", instead was a "he" wanted by Interpol and the FBI. I never did help her, it just goes to show how one should never get lost in emotion.

The best thing to do is say No. No matter what always say NO.

Another one I've gotten from 'friends' in PH is, 'It's my kid's birthday and I need to borrow P500 to buy a cake.' It seems to be common that Filipino's are borrowing from friends regularly, but you can't ever be part of that because you'll be doing only the lending side.😄

Also keep in mind that fake invoices, receipts, bills, etc., can all be made by scammers and counterfeiters. And that the actual paperwork will be passed around and shared by the scammers.

You are 100% spot on mate. Keep up the good work.

Since the majority of people here in the Philippines are fall under the poverty category you'll find that most women here have the same sop story. And it all has to do with the lack of money. If you're patient enough and manage to date more than one girl here you'll find that the one girl you thought was unique is no different than the last one you dated. Don't get me wrong, there are women here who truly can make a good girlfriend or wife but you need to realize that the common denominator they all have is the search for financial help.

Thank you so much for making people aware of exactly how far these people will go to take you for everything you have, and not care one bit how much they hurt you.

I'm absolutely not ever going to meet a girl there till my feet hit the ground in the Philippines

best vid I've seen so far about scamming and I saw many. Thanks a lot.

I was tempted earlier today with a Filipina, a widow, who within a few minutes of messages answered she couldn't talk (instead of messaging) because she had pawned her phone to pay bills. After a few more minutes of messaging, I mentioned that we could probably Facetime or Skype with the laptop or computer she was using and she then told me the camera and microphone were broken and then sent me a picture of a pawn shop receipt for a pawned Iphone. I never mentioned any money or offered to bail her phone out and she didn't ask or mention money again but we're supposed to message again so this can be interesting. Meanwhile, I did a little research and cannot find this pawn shop shown on the claim ticket because part of the address is apparently fake. I was able to find a pawn shop with the same name on the receipt but only part of the address is correct. Her pictures were so great and her dialogue so good that I did have thoughts of volunteering to redeem her phone but I realized there was a good chance she was scamming me and now that I've had more time to think about it and do a little sleuthing, I'm glad I didn't act on my emotions. Good luck out there and thank you for the examples !

I had a Filipina try scam 6 on me. My family just laughed at her. Of course, there was nothing gross on camera, But my family would not have cared.

Great video Mike. The longer I live here the more I see how common scams are. I've seen some truly elaborate scams that are brilliant, and so deeply unethical. But some people put their intelligence towards good and some bad.

Great presentation with a lot of 'good warnings'. Well spoken!

You can meet but still not send money. Never send money!

Good stuff Mike. We got caught in a Ponzi scheme. The person was well known in the community and to my wife and had a good reputation as a church elder. I don't think her intent was to run a Ponzi but she couldn't live up to the returns eventually panic'd and risked it all on someone's scheme and lost everything. We were out a hundred thousand pesos but other people lost millions of pesos. In the aftermath, the woman's husband divorced her and she became a pariah in the community. Lesson learned: Do not go into business with any individual. Stick with well known and gov backed securities or 401k / IRA in your home country. That was 12 years ago but it seems like once every year or so there is a local news story on TV about an outrageous financial scandal rocking the community.

I hate to say it but I'm a cheapskate so these scams won't work on me. The best I can tell the woman is I'm sorry to hear that. Holla back at me when you're straight. I do it all the time to women here in America. They will usually leave you alone and move on to the next potential mark.

I got scammed for years by a so called fiance who could never finish going to the embassy and massive health problems of family members. After years of this her sisters daughter texts me and i found out the brother was not the brother but here 20 plus year boyfriend who is a scam team to get as much as possible from foreiners.

As a foreigner you can not own property in the Philippines, the house you built on the lot you bought is NOT yours, it's your gf/ wife, if they want to they can boot you out anytime and there's nothing you can do. Much better option is buying a condo in your name only....no matter what happens you still own it.

Hi Mike and Janet!! Thanks for the info. Love can make you see and feel all kinds of stuff that is wrong!!!! Ive been scammed, lost a home. I don't want to talk much about it but it was here in the US!!!!! Sucks!! But thank for telling people about it!!! Maybe it'll make someone think!!!

Very helpful and informative video. Thank you for helping others to stay alert and aware of threats everywhere.

When ever a woman scammer tell me her phone is broken, i tell her to message me again in future, when she already has bought a new phone . If she really like u, she will somehow manage to get a phone within 24 hours. If she dont like u and is only trying to scam u, she will disappear forever .

16:02 Being honest, you don't do it even after you arrived in the Philippines. I had a Thai GF, and she wasn't associated with the bar business, whatsoever. When I met her, she was working at the airport in Bangkok for 7 years, so she had a pretty solid job, and yet, she also mentioned the dowry and helping her family etc. One day, she suggested buying a house near the village she came from. I knew the law in Thailand, which is very similar to the Philippines when it comes to buying a property. I would have to buy it in her name. As naive as I am ... NOT, I refused it and told her, that I wouldn't buy anything if I can't buy in my name. The relationship didn't last very much longer after that. Not because she didn't want it anymore, but because I couldn't get it out of my head that my GF tried to scam me. She was assuring me that in case we split up, the house is mine, and will be sold, and I get the money. I thought to myself, yeah, right. I know their law, and I know, I would be sent packing so fast that my head would spin. I would never see the house or my money again. I don't have any experience with Filipinas, but something tells me, that it's pretty much the same as in Thailand. I refuse to invest, and live in the country where I'm basically someone's walking ATM, and where I basically don't have any rights other than the right to deliver my hard-earned cash to just about anyone who stretches his hand (from the top to the bottom).

Great 👍 video Mike. Thanks for all the information,.. it's really helpful.

You are so right! Men just have to be very careful and not get scammed. Thank you for making men aware.

Great topic and excellent info... Thank you

Hi Mike, I believe that last scam, I had a girl ask me to send her (?) a picture of my junk. Needless to say, I refused to send her any pictures. She begged me to send her a picture, but I had heard about this scam before. I would not have sent her a picture even if I hadn't heard of this scam.

Hi Mike in lived in thailand for 13 years tge home if scams the most common one for all who visit is It’s my Birthday today and they would trip the guys past the gold shops and always scored a gold chain and the next was I need 5000 dollars to bury my father my rule is if they ask for money with a story from my personal encyclopaedia of experience i ditch straight away end of story. Your program stands out for your sincerity well done

I feel so blessed with the woman I met. Traveled there 4 times a year for last 3 years. Can't wait to go back in June.

must be careful, scamming applies to every country, thanks for sharing this video

I know it’s hard because we like to brag but… NEVER put where you work on social media. AVOID labeling the relationships of people on your friends list. ALWAYS hide your friends list.

"She said she had to put it in her name" is how every great story begins ...

I can't believe men fall for this. They must have had a very protected life. He's stupid if he fell for it.

Excellent video. With excellent reporting.

Well, the lesson of this video is: if you aren't NEEDY, you won't get scammed. If you have your financial life set up well, you can travel the world and go on dates with women and tell them you don't want to get married or have a long term commitment. When they start becoming a burden to you, you ghost them and go on to the next woman.

I really enjoyed listening to your content. So easy to listen to. Keep up the great work. Your words unlike other bloggers is not judgemental or acting like they are above the rest of us mere mortals. Old Dogs can learn new tricks. Thanks

Thanks for the tips and entertaining stories. Not sure why the algorithm recommended this video but I'm glad it did

Very helpfull video well done my friend great job

Never build a house in Ph with filipina unless she has your kid and is married. to you

This man is telling you the truth!!! Good information

I had a friend scammed out of $20,000 from a woman who lived in England and promised to marry him ..He talked to her for about a year and then you have the ones who say a uncle is leaving them a million dollars but had to marry and they want to marry you ..Many are also Nigerian scammers who use others profiles to scam you ..That poor friend regrets it the rest of his life,He was Catfished !

Fascinating Mike. The scams are shameful. Thanks for the heads up!!!

Hi Mike and Janet!! Yes this alot of scammers out there!!! Real good ones too. While they're scamming you they're scamming two or three others. Oh yeah she'll pick you up at the airport. Spend a couple weeks with you, oh she loves you. Takes you back to the airport when you have to leave. Great isn't it. So ya send her lots of 💰. You know what? When she took you to the airport and you fly away she waited a couple hours and pickup the next you!!!! Yepper!!!! She getting your money and how many other guys money too??? Not fun!!

No brainer, NEVER SEND MONEY to anyone you have never met in person. Even after that, don't GIVE money to someone who is sketchy in REAL life. Run, and run fast. A real honest and loving woman interested in you, that you are not married to, will never ask you for money.

Enjoyable videos. Keep them coming!

Mike and Janet, good video I have now watched it several times and always get reminded of the issues! Thanks much….😊

Great episode Mile . 1 year ago I had a girl send me photo from hospital and in examining photo , it was a photo with her face looking 6 years younger, did not send her any of her requested money .

I had a girl tell me there were mosquitoes there, and she needed some Croc shoes, make up, perfume and medications......I made a pack for her around my cost $400.00 plus shipping...... then I found out that she was selling everything in a market ......

Thank you for sharing this. I thought I was too smart to be scammed but they are good at what they do. Was not a filipina but same games unfortunately.

We men can be so shrewd on the workplace and then so naïve with women! It's rather astonishing, I think.

Get a vasectomy guys , before heading over . It's somewhat cheap , some insurance will cover it , community clinics that might do it and even planned parenthood does them for around 1k. Your OLD, image changing diapers every 3 hours at 65 years old !

Hi Mike, Thank you so very much for this wonderful video. All of what you said is true. I'm so glad that none of these things happened to me. My wife is from the Philippines I have a wonderful relationship with her and the family. We all have a wonderful relationship based on trust and respect. I have visited the Phillippines twice and love it there. Again, Thanks for the excellent video. !!! 🤑🤑🤑

Great video buddy I’ve had a Cambodian women pull the phone stunt on me , and she tried I had to sell my motorbike to pay rent , Stay vigilant people don’t fall for it ✌🏼

Well my wife Dianne Day is 22 year old and i am 72 year old and we are very happy and married

With Janet added to the opening is a nice touch. Great topic and examples of the too many to count Bola Bola in the Philippines 🇵🇭 😆

I fallen for the phone one once but caught a girl for a medicine one when I asked to see a receipt. I googled the image and it turned out to be a meme for neatest doctors handwriting lol. My rule is to never send more than I would spend on a date.

A Fraternity brother of mine thought he was going to get married to a Filipina. She pulled money out of him to build two new houses. He went to visit her once and was intimate with her. Two months later, she said was pregnant. She faked a miscarriage. It turns out, she got pregnant by a boyfriend and placed the baby with a relative. She got control of all of his social median and disconnected all of his network, including me. I think my Fraternity brother lost a large portion of his savings. I have had not communications with him in about 12 years. I do not know how he is today.

Whenever I hear these stories about the Expat or Tourist getting scammed for such a large amount, it makes me wonder: "What happened to the Scammer afterwards? Do they live the rest of their life like royalty? Or does that Scam money disappear as quickly as it was received?"

Old men loves young Filipina Women..it's the other way around. Young Filipina are attracted to old pensioners.

Guys, the golden rule of online dating, if within a few days of chatting she starts mentioning a family member in the hospital or a phone dropped or was stolen, whatever, that's you, the "mark," being set up for the money ask. Terminate the chat and block that Filipina. And if within the first day or two she is asking for a "phone load" (USD $50 or whatever), don't respond, immediately block her. If you feel you just need to say something, say this: "You know, since you are 30 years old I have to assume that you and your family survived just fine without me. So feel free to continue on surviving, without me."

Phone scams are super common. Be careful guys

It’s easy. Don’t go online!!! Be patient. Wait until you get to the Philippines to meet a someone.

Good stuff Mike.

Thank you for making these videos, I myself have been scammed several times, lucky I didn't let it get way out of hand

Online sex extortion is a huge problem. A recent documentary revealed how a young man was blackmailed by one of these women. He was threatened with having a sexually explicit video of him being sent to his family and coworkers if he didn’t pay thousands of dollars in extortion money. Sadly, the stress was too much for him to take and he ended up committing suicide.

Was there in the 70s they were around then I was a service man I will watch out when I return soon thanks mike😮

Scammers are very devious they know how to push your buttons and deceive you. Like Mike said, don't think that you are smarter than them because you aren't

Finally a reality show on KZfaq that's factual . Listen up gentlemen

Good chat. Thanks.

I’ve had the phone scam done once by a Filipina , and also 2 or 3 other attempts but didn’t fall for it again

That bonus scam you were talking about, yeah that was pretty pretty crazy stuff, I heard one on a video where the guy in the Filipina were married for 13 years, Janna house in the states, I think one or two of them, and had a house built in the Philippines, pretty large from what I understood, he decided to retire, I moved to the Philippines for good, the wife left a few months before him to get everything ready for when he got to the Philippines, when you got there, he felt like there was some things that weren't right, so he told his wife, he was going to the store, and that he'd see her after a while, he had a live-in driver, and house-made, but he decided to take one of the cars himself, drove down the road a little bit, walk back to the house, went back to his bedroom and found his wife screwing the driver that he hired, I guess she had been cheating behind his back for several years, he didn't know what to do he slept in one of the spare bedrooms for a few days to figure out what he was going to try to do, and after 13 years of marriage and two kids and three houses, she told him to get out, she took everything, that's pretty messed up, I've heard a lot of different stuff Mike, the personally for me I don't think I could trust anyone, I think it's better for me just not to get involved with anybody 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏