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Offline Martin

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2013, 09:44:11 pm »
Sorry, I meant, what city/ton in Hunan?  I have spent some time in this province.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2013, 09:58:45 pm »
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #32 on: November 20, 2013, 01:15:43 pm »
Here's a good one.
I was reading another forum this morning and learned of a guy that was a skype user. He got a request fromr a lady to add him to his contacts ..so he did. I get these requests too but just delete them.  Well he gets to be friends with the lady and over time they got to be "really good friends" exchanging erotic photos and the like. Then one day they got naked on camera for a little more than just talk.  Then  she informs him that she had recorded everything and was going to post it online  including his facebook and other social websites unless he forked over MONEY!

What a moron. i am still chuckling.
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #33 on: November 20, 2013, 07:04:53 pm »
This is not just a problem for adults that should know better but is is also a serious one for kids. 

Youngsters have set up similar associations and have done things on camera they would rather wish they had not. They then find that they are plastered on facebook etc with the result that they are ridiculed at school and in their neighbourhood and this continues long after the offending messages have been removed.

Worse still is that some has been blackmailed into performing all sorts of illegal underage acts to satisfy the perverts and their fellow 'pedo' online friends.  Some have been known to have committed suicide over such events.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #35 on: November 23, 2013, 02:09:03 am »
Oh my god. I ran across this while I was reading about a password theft at Adobe and Facebook.

The password on file at Cupid media is the same as the one I use for my bank account and my credit card accounts. I never received any notice of a security breach.  Take notice and change your passwords it you need to.

Up to 42 million people worldwide have had their names, email addresses, passwords and dates of birth exposed to online criminals, the result of a data breach in January at Australian online-dating company Cupid Media.

There have been bigger data breaches, but perhaps none worse. Every one of the 42 million Cupid Media passwords was stored in unencrypted plain text.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/cupid-media-data-breach,news-17879.html
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #36 on: December 31, 2013, 04:08:06 am »
Hi Pineau,

a little off topic, but you mentioned passwords. There are a couple of solutions:
  • use a password manager (I use Lastpass, premium account covers all my devices) - one password to remember and let it generate crazy random stuff for everything else.
  • the other is a neat little trick:

Think of a song. For the example I will use "IF" by Bread. (it isn't the one I use, LOL, but it gives a good example)
If a Picture paints 10Oo Words, then Why can't I paint You
Notice that I mixed up Caps and lower case, and mixed numbers and letters in 1,000. could also use U instead of You or 3x0 instead of the zero's in 1,000. Lots of little tricks you can play, but you will never forget the song.
This becomes your base phrase for the password, then you add the website Cl for this one, ClL for China Love Links, Fb for Facebook etc - so each site has a unique, but easily remembered password.
You need to get a song with 10 - 14 letter/numbers to fit with the (usually) 16 digit password format

Have fun and be more secure.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #37 on: December 31, 2013, 03:39:10 pm »
Thanks for the advice but I already have my passwords tucked away behind lock and key. Most of them are unique but I messed up when I used the same one as my financial accounts as I did on Cupid.  That has since been remedied.  The  problem is not with the individual that got his password hacked.  The problem is with the site managers lazy methods to keep you passwords accessible to online internet hackers and in an un-encrypted format. I did , finally , months later receive an email from Qpid telling me about the password hack and advising me to change it. .
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #38 on: January 20, 2014, 11:57:35 am »
Does anyone here have experience with agency P928? I would really like to know what to expect from them when I go to China to meet my lady.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2014, 12:55:42 pm »
Since no one has replied as yet, I thought to provide additional information regarding the agency as recommended by a friend. The name of the agency is:
Zhengzhou Dishi Culture Communication Co. Ltd, Since Mar-21-12 in Zhengzhou, Henan.
Any experiences with this company would be greatly appreciated.
I will be sure to post my experience with them as facts arise.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2014, 07:42:52 pm »
Sorry, The only agency I know is in Shenyang and they scammed me twice.
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #41 on: January 23, 2014, 08:57:20 pm »
Me? After research here and there...I stayed away from Chinese agencies altogether! I had been scammed prior by a Ukrainian agency. I met my wife on a personals website.

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #42 on: January 23, 2014, 09:02:20 pm »
Tom,
That agency appears to be fairly new.
I had an opportunity to visit Zhengzhou a few years back..prior to Mar2012.
Like anything you read on the forums, use a little common sense and most importantly don't let the site hype & pretty
pics seduce you out of your monies.
I think if I were you, I'd pick one lady from that agency. Only one but pick one of the more (as in MOST) recently published ladies and
acquaint yourself. If you tender your interest, it will cost you time & some money. Nothing is free nowadays. The longer you spin
your agencies wheels the more money you will spend.
I don't have my membership any longer but I understand the the 'cupid's' (sort of an electronic business card of interest)
are gone. So, that approach is burnt toast.

If the woman of your choice is interested, give communication a month, two months at most, a go. If the interest is there
she (as in 'the agency'..the necessary 3rd party) will express their desire for your visit. Go. This stage of the 'man meets woman'
is critically important. Too soon shows you are probably just a 'player' & tardiness indicates you are not ready or that
serious of a suitor. If the lady is real, she will not have a penchant to be your penpal. She wants marriage & a visit is mandatory.
I met my wife thru Chnlove on my 4th visit, but it was another agency, another city. Took me 3 visits to figure out the scheme of
things, but the ladies are real.

Be advised there is a lot of places of interest near Zhengzhou. To the West there is the Shaolin Temple & a bit further,
Longmen Grotto.
You should enjoy yourself in Zhengzhou.

Oh, be advised that Chinese New Year is in a few days. Forgo any communication until well into February.

Wish you the good luck! John
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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2014, 12:40:39 am »
Everyone, thanks for your thoughts and advice.
I have been speaking to one lady since before Thanksgiving and plan to visit in April. While I am pretty sure some of "her" letters were the translator, I also can tell that at least a good portion were from my lady. So even though I spent quite a bit in communication, I would likely have spent the same amount dating a western woman and been fooled even more often :)
Anyway, I fully expect to marry this lady in April when I visit for 2 weeks. Yes, I am that sure of our relationship. And yes, I have been wrong before, haha.
@JohnB, thanks John would love to see the Shaolin Temple but although the agency is in Zhengzhou, my lady lives in Nanning. Any ideas why she might choose an agency that is clear across the country?

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Re: Scams/Pitfalls when starting up
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2014, 08:37:49 am »
Tom , it is not unusual for a lady to pick an out of town agency for many reasons including the possibility one of her friends suggested that particular one or she could not be sure who maybe trolling in her neighbourhood .
See on any of the other free to view sites seeing you know her age and possibly her area , other guys have in the past found their ladies on other sites as well and saved themselves many dollars by a little detective work , regards Sujuan and Robert .
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