Watch out! Many Filipinas are on CLC as scammers. Mostly, they give their locations as some city in Guangdong province, China (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan, etc) but their IP addresses are in the Philippines. Commonly, they give their occupations as Other, Nanny/Childcare and Academic/Education, and ages in the 20s and 30s. They have migrated from Filipinocupid to hunt in ChinaLoveCupid.

I caught one case just now. The profile MYLENE I/D *******, now in CLC is actually a monstrously fat Filipina who was on FC about 2 years ago using her sister's name DOHVIE. I found out when I eventually spoke to the sister Dohvie on Skype (who couldn't speak much English) whereas the fat scammer could (I had been speaking to her on the phone regularly).

I was tipped off by a Filipina living in London who was the ex-girlfriend of Dohvie's (and her fat sister's) brother, a bum and wastrel. While the ex was speaking to the brother on the phone, she overheard the fat one boasting loudly about her money scams using her sister Dohvie's name on FC. The ex then got a friend to hack into Dohvie's account on FC and found recorded conversations between me and the fat scammer, from where she got my email and tipped me off (forever grateful to her!).

Now, this MYLENE on CLC was careless enough to use one of the same photos as she had used as DOHVIE 2 years ago, all the other photos being different. That's how I caught her and reported the scam to CLC. This same Mylene (same photos) is also on FilipinoCupid and JapanCupid!

You can check up on MYLENE on CLC using the above Member I/D. Thing is, I'm not sure if CLC will actually take action or close an eye. SO WATCH OUT FOR FILIPINAS ON CLC CLAIMING TO BE RESIDENT IN CHINA.

Of course, you will also find your fair share of scammers on CLC posing as Chinese women!

UPDATE 1: I'm very glad to tell readers here that CLC has removed the scammer Mylene from their site. Their swift action has done much to restore confidence in their site and service. However, Mylene still remains on FilipinoCupid and JapanCupid (I guess that's for a different service to deal with).

UPDATE 2: Mylene has also been removed from JapanCupid (within 30 minutes of my report) and FilipinoCupid (took 4 days to act).

The name of the game on this site, is making money. The standard gold membership is $35aud for a month, just to try it out mind you, and then rebilled automatically unless you take steps to login and change it in your settings. This to me, shows a devious marketing method in itself and it comes out of Australia, lol! How about CLC, you let your members choose if they want auto renewal or not, when they decide to part with their hard earned to try you out?

I am sure there are agencies involved on the China end. Many of the so called mail texts coming from the 'free' women is the same in content. Some women who are older and have paid or otherwise memberships, do seem more genuine, but beware the young gorgeous 27yo who writes to a man twice her age for love, that could be a disaster right there and simply a move to get her a better life and flick you later at her convenience, and take a whole lot of your asset value with her.

Beware of any free profile asking you to email them directly in the 1st contact, especially if they have a hot photo, any suggestive or sexy wording, and have not completed their profile, nor have it validated, and have NOT viewed your profile. Most of the women who write you, will not view your profile, now why is that? If they were serious about you, they would want to know what you have to offer wouldn't they?

CLC also will offer you a 2 day trial at some stage if you have not paid. I guess their model is that by offering it, you will generate a couple of contacts, start chatting, then your access to mail is stopped once the trial is up and then you will then pay. You can't read any of the previous messages once the trial stops. AND, the dialogue box of the offer means nothing whether you accept the offer or not, you can close it off, thinking you don't need it, and the offer still proceeds. Once the women see you with a Platinum membership, you will get contact requests guaranteed, even if you look like a train wreck.

Translation software is used on the site, which to be honest is not accurate enough. Chinese in any dialect, is such a difficult language to know what is being said verbally, let alone by a computer.

There will be a needle in a haystack that will be genuine, but for me, I am not interested in sifting through each one that sends a contact request to find out if they are real or not. I'd think it would be a lot less trouble, to visit China and then look for someone while there.

You can waste a lot of time on the site. Not many women have English ability and you will have to be patient with that. International romance with cultural and language differences will be a challenge. The logistics of setting up together will test the resolve and resources of you both.

Also be aware of something within the Chinese culture, its the 'lose face' deal. They will dishonour truth to save face, so if you are honest, you will struggle with this and it will be a very real problem at some stage.

I know, I was used by one such Chinese woman for a better life for her and her son, discarded like trash when it suited her. Don't rush in, and use your god given gift of discernment and be prepared to suffer if things go belly up later. She committed crimes in court, was not touched and got 60% of my asset value and I had to pay costs. Good luck guys!