Jeff t. I was communicating with several girls last year, all good looking, real sweeties. I wasn't happy about having to pay each time a letter went back and forth so i tried to give them my private email. They all said the same thing, that their English wasn't good enough and it was best to keep using the web site as their translator helped them a lot. I was always suspicious, and often told them so, they seemed very offended that i might think they were "fake", and made me feel bad. Anyway, I told them I was travelling to China/Vietnam at Christmas time and wanted to meet them, at first they seemed excited and eager to meet, but one by one they dropped off, that is made an excuse not to meet me. The first one said her mother was dying of cancer and she had to rush back to her home town, another one made an excuse up that she must spend the certain dates (near New Year) with her family and couldn't meet me, another said she'd love to meet me "If I have time", so i told them all to get stuffed basically. It's a huge scam, you are talking to an enterpreuter. Some of the girls might exist, but they get taken quickly and the agency leaves their profile up for ages, just to string new gullible guys along, and make money via chatting and letters.
I then went to Vietnam and contacted several in Saigon, as I thought if they were real they would have no excuse to not meet me. I ended up meeting none of the 3 I contacted there. Even gave them my Hotel room no, phone number, email, but no... they would only make contact through the site, and never showed. Those Saigon ones still send me letters (i've blocked the Chinese ones) but I havn't read any of them, which means they don't make any money haha!
I wasted probably about $1200 on those scammers, and it still pisses me off.
All I can do is warn others - DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY - YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED!