One guy said that he
was receiving emails
and they all had the same title for the subject. Sounds like one person
sending out mass emails.
Another guy told me
that this site is using craigslist to lure guys. That is a BAD sign.
Now, I have a good
report...
COMPLAINTS
Hi Jim,
I thought I drop off a quick note about my experiences with
www.mypoppet.com <http://www.mypoppet.com/> . These guys
are
terrible. They also run a sister website called www.mylovesearcher.com
<http://www.mylovesearcher.com/> . I don't think any of
their
profiles are real. I believe these guys are running a fake dating
agency to suck money from men by paying for letter translation, buy
contact info etc. I was writing to 6 women at one point. Last year, I
received two identical letters from two different Anna that I was
supposedly writing to. Their American phone number is not in service
when I called to complaint. I paid for one of the ladies personal
contact info. All they sent me was an email address: no street address
or phone number. The lady only responded once by private email. The
rest of the time she tried to lure me back into corresponding with her
via paid translation services even though her English is pretty good. I
even emailed them for details on tours and received very basic info.
When I asked questions about the tours, they failed to reply to my
questions.
Also, whenever I wrote to the supposedly ladies personal questions
directly and asked for them for their answers, they always failed to
answer my questions. They would always gave some vague answer and not
answer my questions directly. I also tried to set up phone calls to
three ladies. They always came up with excuses why it could not be
booked even though the lady and I agreed through our written emails to
a date and time of the call in advance.
Basically, MyPoppet is a bullshit fake agency in my opinion.
more...
Hi Jim,
I
found you after the event I'm afraid, I was spamed on skype to meet
Russian girls, I hit the link which opened mypoppet.com
Without up
loading my photo I was swamped with letters, which cost
around US$6 on
average to read and again US$6 to write all on the pretence
of the
letters need to be translated. I communicated with one girl who wrote
in detail about her want to meet a man and asked my opinion
on all
sorts of subjects to do with relationships and families. When
it came
time to ask for the personal detail to contact the girl
directly it
was only an email address and this took several days to
recieve where
as letters were recieved in quick succesion and the money was spinning.
Thinking back one girl told me how handsom my photo was which
should
have sparked alarm bells as I didn't have a photo on my
profile. I
consider myself pretty street smart and I can tell you this
is the
first tine I've been scamed on the net....and in dating that I'm
completly convinced as the girl won't write to me even in
Russian as I
communicate it fluently that's this is an absloute scam!!
more...
Dear Jim,
Here is my letter. I think you could use this one more than the others.
My Poppet is a very very very clever fraud.
For
almost an entire year I thought I was communicating to a beautiful
woman who had lips like Angelina Jolie, but I just found out that I was
actually talking to a 52-year old male from Afghanistan with a gold
tooth!
They use a lot of sales backdrops to get you to drop your
guard. For instance, the lady I was supposedly writing to claimed to be
religious. Anybody who has sold used cars knows to pull out the Jesus
statues when a new buyer is coming. Here's another backdrop they use:
They have a disclaimer on the home page that states members are not to
promote racial or religious persecution. Well, this would give the
average bachelor the strong impression that this is a legitimate
organization that doesn't want any trouble. Also, they actually have a
phony newletter supposedly updating the current members about MyPoppet
activities. You can tell this is fake by noticing they continue to
email the same 2 newsletters over and over again. The text never
changes.
I was one of the many suckers that
fell for the woman that had the "Angelina Jolie" lips. Her picture is
not categorized with the other women's photos. They use her photo and
profile like a sniper. If your not putting down a credit card to write
to any of the posted ladies, then they bring this girl out as a big
gun. They don't post the "Angelina" woman along with the others for a
reason. Someone who is badly victimized might report the name of this
supposed member on a blog like this, so the perpetrator can easily
change the female's name this way.
To
mention a few other tricks that the fraudster is using: As it came
closer to the time we were planning to have my supposed new wife fly
over here to the U.S., the fraudster then informed me that "she" has
some food allergies that include citrus fruits and is lactose
intolerant, so "she" can only drink soy milk. I think you are getting
the picture now. Why would any reasonble person doubt these factors as
anything, but adding up to more legitimacy.
Here is a mind blower: I remember 6 months into the fraud I had read
some of the bad reviews that made me suspicious, but not suspicious
enough. Remember, there were phony, but very good reviews about the
site placed by the owner himself acting like a client. This fooled me.
I continued to take the risk. I didn't want to believe that I could've
been hoaxed.
After a few months I decided
enough was enough, I had to prove once and for all if this voluptuous
woman was real or fake. I demanded she send me a new photo if she
wanted to continue the relationship. "She" just stalled and stalled and
started writing flowery letters just completely ignoring the issue.
And, this was after I purchased her contact info. Oh, and by the way,
"she" demonstrated almost the exact behavior described by an irrate
blogger. She tried to lure me back onto the paid site after I had fully
communicated to her by direct email.
You
may wonder how I could have been so naive to fall for such an obvious
hoax by such an obviously "too good to be true" lady. I'll tell you how
I fell for it. I am a good looking California guy with a successful
career. I haven't been able to find my soulmate out here where I live
since the demographics of this area have changed so drasticallly in the
last 15 years. Here I am, just another Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt or Johnnie
Depp looking for a wife in a land where there are no females like
myself anymore. It seemed to be very plausible that a young woman who
claims from experience that the men in Russia are abusive might want to
look to a western man as the answer. Likewise, it seemed plausible that
since I live in the entertainment capital of the world where it doesn't
even snow in the winter, that such a lifestyle might appeal to a woman
who has been locked into a frigid climate 9 months out of the year..
This is why I fell for the fraud!
I happen to be an attorney. I've already submitted a full crime report
to the Russian Bureau of Domestic Investigation. They are currently
looking into the website and will most likely be throwing this scum
behind bars.
Please post this letter as much as possible.
Thanks,
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