I have been a member for about 4 months & out of 10 girls I have written to, 7 of them asked for money to be sent over, thru western union ofcourse.
which is such a regular pattern of behaviour, I am fed up of these scammers.
I wrote to customer support & they asked me to give their ID's but I forgot to make a note of ID's so I only have their emails
Subject: Technical problems
Can you please tell me what is your policy regarding anti-scam policy? What if I come across members in your website asking for money to be sent over? What is your policy toward this scenerio? Before I renew my membership again, I need to know the answer to the above question? from XXXXXXX
here is the reply:
Re: Technical problemsþ
From: Manager (office@city-of-brides.com)
Sent: November 9, 2009 11:50:58 AM
Dear Sir,
if you come across these women, pleas send us their ids and names and the reasons (letters) why you think you consider them scammers, We delete their profiles and let them get on the site again
Now I have done some research as to how to remove these scammers from the website & found out from a lawyer in UKR(they all have different rates-anyone know cheaper let me know?) that
for each girl I think I need to pay $300 to get a police report in order to black list the individual from agency or website. Now 7 scammers, that adds up, I am not going to pay for that, all I can do is submit there pictures which is the only thing they can't change to popular scammers websites.
Any help appreciated???
You pay a lawyer 300USD to have a girls name removed from an agency?
That sounds like a scam to beat all scams.
Forget trying to bring law and order to this game.
You want some help? ..wake up and smell the coffee.
The middle of the front page on the site you mention here has in big bold letters...MAIL ORDER BRIDE SERVICE...go figure.
But which city is, supposedly, the city of brides because COB is a nationwide Ukraine affiliate operation and I know, from eye witness experience, that COB's Zaporozhye affiliate agency is a scam, paid employees writing to suckers falsly pretending to be these pretty ladies on COB's website.
Getting them kicked off the site is easy enough, send em 20 bucks dont tell them that is what you sent and i guarantee they will collect it, then you have a chain of events to prove they asked for money and you sent it and they collected it. Send that info to the customer service and if they have any balls they should kick them off. Significantly cheaper than 300 bucks. Any western union transaction the girl must provide photo identification by the form of her passport. also if you contact western union they can tell you where exactly the money was picked up and this can sometimes tell you the girl has lied about where she lives, it is common for the girl to always use the same western union bank if she is a scammer. Once you have done this and the girl gets kicked off the site, send copies of the customer service responce to any other sites she may be on and see how they react. Some of the notorious sites want to apear to be helping but they wont unless you prove to them that you sent her money and she asked for it.
C-O-B is a haven for "old school" scammers - those who outright ask for money after a sequence of impersonal canned letters. Theres little point in trying to get removed because there are literally thousands of them.