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Joe D.

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Level 2 Contributor
Beverly Hills, California

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Total Points
932

About Me

Substitute Teacher SAG/AFTRA Actor Aspiring writer of non-fiction IMDB Profile: Joe Duffy (I)

Interests

Voracious reading, Watching DVD movies, Attend Actor Workshops/Seminars/Movie Screenings.

7 Reviews by Joe

  • Orchidromance

2/13/23

Use your complimentary 20 credits to send a brief note (2 creds deducted for each note.) to 10 female profiles. Include your personal email and request that they contact you there for further conversation. How many women will write to your email? NONE! (They will make some excuses, or ignore your request.) Why? The Website Admin and the females don't make $$$ unless you remain on the website spending your money! All International Dating Websites (Asian, Russian, Ukrainian, etc.) are designed to drain your wallet! You will spend hundreds/thousands of $$$, and no relationship will ever happen! Orchid is just one more example! Search YouTube for informative videos explaining how the date website scams operate. A wise man heeds the warning, but the gullible don't listen, and become the next suckers and victims!

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Support Team O. – Orchidromance Rep

Dear Joe,
Thanks for sharing your feedback.

We are sorry to hear your experience didn’t match your expectations.
At this point, we would like to let you know that we would like the opportunity to investigate your feedback further.
Could you please contact us at support@orchidromance.com? We’ll work with you to help you on the matter you reported as quickly as possible.

Please note that our trusted users’ profiles are confirmed by verifying their ID and background. Firstly, in order to register, every trusted user takes a short video of herself holding her ID, stating the current date, and confirming her consent for the registration out loud. Secondly, we verify if the information provided in the registration video corresponds to her profile info. Our moderators check if it is the same person — both at the video and at the profile picture. Thus, we can assure the person you are talking to is the person you see in the profile.

Our affiliate partners make sure that there are no bogus profiles, that the user you look at in the profile pictures is the user you are corresponding with (such profiles have the label "Trusted User").

Also, please be advised that we do not pay the validated members for communication with other users and prohibit our Regional Partners to do so. If we find out that the user is paid by the Partner for communication on his/her behalf, we fine the Partner and immediately delete the user’s profile.

Please feel free to reach out to our support@orchidromance.com email with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share.
We would love to make things right if you give us another chance.

Best regards,
OrchidRomance Support Team

  • LettersFreely

10/18/21

Letters Freely is NOT a Pay Per Letter (PPL) site, but Letters Freely is a Pay Per Character (PPC) scheme. In other words, most Foreign Date Scam Websites charge $5 or $6 to send a letter to another member. However, Letters Freely will charge - by deducting funds from your account balance - for every 'unit,' which is any alphabet letter, number, or punctuation mark that you have included in your composed letter. SO that, the more you write in the letter, the higher the cost. You could pay $10 or $20 or $30 to send a lengthy letter!
(2) I informed Letters Freely Admin that 'Hong Ho' was a fake profile by a scammer using stolen pics from a Korean women who is a social influencer in that country. The Admin acknowledged my report, but didn't remove the fraudulent profile. Also, I then asked Admin to refund wasted credits for letters that I sent to the fake profile before realizing it. However, the Russian Admin refused to credit my account, because she claimed that their translator still was paid for converting my English letters into Korean, so no way to get a refund. Very poor customer relations on their part!
(3) The Female Members will NOT communicate with you off the website! I received dozens of letters from Korean females (plus Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Latina females) who wrote to me multiple times with attractive or sensual pictures, but I ignored them. Finally, not wanting to be disrespectful, I wrote to 20 to 30 Korean females + 1 Russian female. I included my personal email with request to write to me there. The result was NOT ONE Female member followed my request. WHY NOT? They either ignored my request, or claimed they don't feel comfortable leaving the Letters Freely website.
So, if you don't get off the website, then you just keep paying for every letter sent. If the Female Members won't share their email, phone, or postal address, then there is NO Chance to ever meet in person, or develop a true relationship!
(4) I do believe that Female Members here are real persons, and not Website Office Employees pretending to be the pretty girls, BUT I wonder or suspect that Letters Freely offers $$ commission to Female Members to keep exchanging letters on the Website with Guys, who keep pay, pay, paying. However, I have NOT proven that angle at this time, or extracted a confession YET!
(5) Remember that ALL these Foreign Date Websites have one primary purpose: To empty your wallet, and put your $$ into their bank account!
(6) More About Me: My IMDB Profile is 'Joe Duffy (I)', so check me out there!

Tip for consumers:
Just another Foreign Dating website, where you keep spending money to send letters to members, but highly doubtful that a true relationship is possible to find here.

  • DateYou

1/20/21

First, in their "General Terms & Conditions," the Website says "MP Mobile Performance uses professional animators and operators for the entertainment of the users, who are not identified separately in the system... Real meetings are not possible with these operators. Users can only send them messages within the portal." (11e)
My interpretation is that this is a legal admission that the website is sprinkled with fake profiles, or that, Office Workers (professional operators) are pretending to be the women in the profiles, and you are chatting with MP employees. If true, I don't consider that to be entertaining at all!
In the CHAT feature, You are charged 50 coins EVERY TIME you make a comment, and hit the Enter Key! Every time you send a sentence, or even one word, to a Member, it's 50 coins deducted! That's approximately $1 per response or comment! ( At $24.99 for 1270 Coins + 120 Bonus = 1390 coins) SO, the Professional Operators and/or Members will keep you chatting to drain your wallet!
Also, I used DateYou during Graveyard Shift or hours when most normal people and women are asleep. It is peculiar and suspect that Majority of Women that sent me letters are magically Online exactly when I am there, even at 3AM, and send back a quick response to any note that I send. My message doesn't wait in queue until female member wakes up. Nope! I get a quick response. Tney all seem to online when I am there, even in the wee hours at 3AM instead of asleep! Or, maybe MP Professional Operators are on shift to send back quick responses, keep you chatting, 50. 50. 50. Coins, draining your wallet!
Also, I sent Responses to Females who wrote me first. I provided my Yahoo email to them with request that they write me there. Of course, No female will do that, because DateYou can't charge 50 coins per comment if you go off their website to communicate through regular email. So the females make excuses to avoid email, or ignore my request by trying to elicit more online chat response from me.
A Northridge female stated that she was so attracted to my profile that she wanted to EAT ME up! So I provided my Yahoo email asking her to contact me there for further communication. Why can't she do that? Her response: "I am much more comfortable to talk to you in here. I hope you will understand me this time!" Nope, I don't understand if she wants to Eat Me why she won't write my email. Well, if she did that, then DateYou couldn't charge 50, 50, 50... coins every time!
I'm getting letters from female members that are quite unattractive, below average in appearance, having 2, or 3+ children, so I thought these Women must be real persons. Not fake profiles of beautiful Russian or Ukrainian models who want you to marry them. However, now when every woman refuses to switch to regular email, I'm thinking this website is a fraud, too!

Tip for consumers:
Don't Waste Your Time or Money!

  • Dictionary.com

7/15/12

Whenever I'm reading a book, magazine, or newspaper in hard copy, or an online newsletter, I can jump over to this website to look up definitions of unfamiliar words.

Quick access to this online dictionary often prevents a reader from skipping over a strange word without trying to understand its use in whatever you're reading.

I'm a Substitute Teacher, and I have recommended this website to students so they can quickly check word meanings.

Usually, this website offers several explanations for each word defined, and
Explains the etymology, or origin/development, of the term.

(Oops, I just linked over to this website to make sure I spelled 'etymology' correctly. See how useful this website can be to a writer!)

--JOE Duffy
Beverly Hills/Los Angeles, California

  • Brad's Deals

7/15/12

My exposure to Brad's Deals is relatively new, but I have made two purchases through it. Actually, you don't purchase through Brad, but link over to some other website which offers the special deal, and you enter the Discount Code provided by Brad.

Brad offers Magazine Subscriptions which are wonderful!

I was able to subscribe to OK! Magazine for 3 years at a price which averages out to about $10/year. So I bought two subscriptions for me, and a gift for my sister.

Then I was able to subscribe to The STAR supermarket tabloid for about the same
Deal of $10/year. So I picked up two subscriptions for me and sister again,

In both offers, 1 or 2 year subscriptions were slightly higher in price, but still a great offer.

I've seen Brad notify members of more Magazine Subscriptions in the $5/year
Price range. Perhaps, the publishers discount the price because Brad can deliver a huge burst of new paid subscriptions in a brief and quick period of time.

I recommend that you put yourself on his email list for his deal notifications,
Especially if you like to read lots to magazines!

Sincerely, JOE Duffy
Beverly Hills/Los Angeles California

  • LatinEuro

7/15/12

Around 2008, I purchased a Package of 100 Latin Euro addresses of female members. The addresses were computer-compiled, and sent to my email. I sent an introductory letter with photograph to these female members. Mostly, I picked Brazilian females, because I stayed in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro during three summers (2008-2010).

First, over the next 1.5 to 2 years, I continued to receive dozens of letters returned by the Brazilian Post Office, because the mailing address was invalid, as person unknown, or no such person living there anymore.

This demonstrated that Latin Euro makes no effort to keep updated Personal Information on female members, and where they currently live. Just old addresses mostly.

Second, 1 Brazilian female notified me that she had a boyfriend now, she didn't want to be listed in Latin Euro any longer, but that Latin Euro wouldn't remove her profile, and she was still getting unwelcome letters from men!

Third, the Majority of Brazilian females just didn't respond or answer my letter, so I considered my investment to be a complete waste of money.

Fourth, I did have brief telephone, or email contact with 3 Brazilian females, but 2 were in Sao Paulo, and 1 on the North East top of Brazil, and rather far away from Rio, and I wasn't motivated to travel to distant cities to meet them. (It's like if someone visits Los Angeles, but you're in New York, they may be in USA, but still far away.)

Fifth, I did talk to a divorced Peruvian woman living in Los Angeles, California. At that time, I learned from her that she had three children which was a fact that Latin Euro concealed, or didn't mention in her profile. She worked as a store cashier, and also exported women's clothing back to Peru, where her sister sold it profitably. I made a date with her to attend a private film screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. On that night, she didn't show up, and she didn't answer her cell phone when I called to inquire about her absence. Years later, Latin Euro still posted her profile and picture, and wow, she has a slender, buxom figure that rocked! So I wondered why her previous husband walked out on her, leaving three children behind? And why no Latin Euro men committed to this woman after years on the website. Maybe the rudeness/disrespect that she demonstrated toward me was the personal quality that made her beautiful on the outside, but ugly in personality and character.

Consequently, my LatinEuro experience was unproductive, a complete waste of money, didn't connect with any Brazilian women, found an abundance of bad addresses, so I have never used this website again.

Sincerely, JOE Duffy
Beverly Hills, California

  • AsianBeauties

7/14/12

This Asian Beauties website requires that you purchase expensive credits. You must pay 10 credits to open/read every letter, and pay 10 credits to respond to every letter. 10 credits = about $5.00.

If you continue correspondence with female members, you continue paying $5 for every read/respond letter. ($5+$5=$10) You never stop paying the Russians who operate this website.

When Asian female sends letter with extra pictures attached, AB website permits you look at 1st pic free, then PAY 10 credits to open/view each additional picture.

If you try to insert your direct email, or personal address into your letter, the AB website has computer software which censors/blocks personal information. AB does not want you to exchange email/phone/address with the female members, because you are not allowed to communicate with the girls off the AB website.

When you ask for their personal email/address/phone, the girls will not
Provide it, and you will be told excuses, that they wish to communicate with you only on AB, where, of course, you keep paying credits to the Russian administrators.

In addition, the local Chinese translators may very well not provide/transfer your
Personal data/information to the girl when they do English--Chinese translation so the female may read your comments.

On the video/chat box online, you must pay 1 credit per minute just to send
A text message with no cam. Or, you pay 2 credits per minute to see girl on cam. Credits cost between 40 to 80 cents determined by how many you buy in bulk in one transaction. One hour = 60 minutes X 40/80 cents = $24 to $48 per hour for text box, or $48 to $96 per hour for girl on web cam.

(All the Anastasia websites for Russian/Ukrainian/Asian, and AmoLatina websites operate on these same PAY always policies.)

Online, you type message, PAY, transmit message, PAY, girl reads message, PAY, girl thinks response, PAY, girl types, PAY, girl transmits, PAY, you receive/read, PAY, and keep on. PAYING every minute. You burn through your bank account, and Russian administrators go to luxurious nightclub and eat caviar/drink expensive vodka thanks to you!

On scam report websites, some former AB male members report spending $$$ hundreds, even $3,000 worth of credits, and never make progress with these female members toward a serious relationship.

On Asian Beauties, my personal profile received several hundred letters from pretty Chinese females. I couldn't open/read them, because AB would charge thousands of dollars to do it, and thousands of dollars to respond to these nice women.

Two Chinese women claimed to have wealthy daddies, to be affluent, and offered to come to USA, buy me a house/car if I'd be their husband! Wow!, I was getting ready to write them a letter of interest, inviting them to make the trip here. And I reviewed the profile of a stunning Chinese girl who said she was here in Los Angeles. We exchanged 1 letter.

Then I noticed that I stopped receiving email from AB website, or notifications of new letters. I tried to log in, and was rejected. Tried to call their Customer Support with difficulty, sometimes on hold for 1 hour. Then I talked with Christina, Customer Support Manager in Russia. She was unable to provide explanation for why Ruslan, the 'Risk Manager,' deleted my account. I wanted to talk to Ruslan over telephone, but he was never available, and didn't telephone me later even though Christina promised he would.

Instead, Ruslan transmitted multiple emails asking me to photocopy both sides of my credit card, the back/front, and photocopy my personal ID, which could mean passport or state ID, and send both to him via email or fax to prove who I was!

What? Does this sound like an attempt to rip off my Identity, and tap my Credit Card until wiped out? Bank of America Customer Care and I both thought it did, and I certainly wasn't foolish enough to comply with Ruslan's request.

Now that Ruslan deleted my membership, I'll never find out if those Chinese girls were serious, or bluffing, about buying me a new house! And Ruslan/Christina never explained why I was dropped. My suspicion is that I wasn't spending enough money, not responding to the hundreds of letters. Some AB girls wrote me eight or nine letters trying to prompt a response from me.

So maybe AB drops male members who are reluctant to blow big $$$, and spend just a small amount, and are highly selective in answering the females.
I just don't know, but I really wanted one of those rich Chinese girls to buy me a Beverly Hills mansion, and now I have to keep living in my tiny apartment instead!

Sincerely, JOE Duffy
Los Angeles, California

Joe Has Earned 52 Votes

Joe D.'s review of Dictionary.com earned a Very Helpful vote

Joe D.'s review of Brad's Deals earned 3 Very Helpful votes

Joe D.'s review of AsianBeauties earned 16 Very Helpful votes

Joe D.'s review of LatinEuro earned 23 Very Helpful votes

Joe D.'s review of DateYou earned 3 Very Helpful votes

Joe D.'s review of LettersFreely earned 4 Very Helpful votes

Joe D.'s review of Orchidromance earned 2 Very Helpful votes

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