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I hope that the message is starting to get through.
The reason behind the publicity of all this is not because I desire to exact revenge upon and shame a solitary Filipina - who I was madly in love with.
Nothing could be further than the truth.
The reason is precisely this - there are indications of complicity from a business man involved in real estate (the girl's immediate boss) - who most positively endorsed the information I was sent (that it was hoped I would believe.)
There can be no doubts whatsoever that his presence in these events cannot be excused by ignorance of the reality of the situation.
Further to this first reason - there is considerable weight to the possibility that the orchestrated "Hoax" SEO Campaign, including the recording, editing and publishing online of a video interview with the girl - is as a direct result of the resources and determined efforts of this real estate company being employed to that end.
Efforts that are no doubt fully supported and encouraged by the sex-industry - in all of its associations with the Philippines.
It has certainly been proved without a shadow of doubt that the majority of visible opposition to this story comes from people who are connected, through business interest, family or socially - and has not been at all random or haphazard, nor has it been without deliberate incitement through false accusation.
The motivation for this opposition is proved therefore to be other than from impartial consideration or reasoned argument.
Let us call the businessman "J" for the sake of this discussion.
"J" is key to the success of this alleged fraud.
The "hospital operation" was an "emergency" requiring the down payment of a deposit before it could proceed (as is often the case in the Philippines.)
Rather than introduce a new character, unknown to me, or rather than weaken the impelling background of poverty by involving a family member - "J" is crucial as the figure who allegedly paid this deposit.
He was of suitable status for this to be entirely feesible - an additional component now to the original scam idea of a simple pregnancy - which had been scuppered by the announcement of my forthcoming 2nd visit to see the girl.
"J's" business aquaintance (we shall call "M") was the person allegedly responsible for the considerable photoshop alteration of the girl's photograph - as was used on her DIA profile and also her work ID?
I ask you this - is it normal for a girl's photograph to be digitally enhanced for an ID card?
This, so I was told, was the purpose the photograph had been originally taken for.
There is more sense in such editing for a profile on a dating site, although slightly "dishonest."
"M" also works in real estate - and together with "J" invited me to put up a website over here in the UK, for their real estate business - to help them attract custom.
Both "J," the girl and everybody else had obviously decided that the entire responsibility of paying for the alleged operation was mine.
There was certainly no doubt to that.
"J" sent me emails and SMS messages - demonstrating his concern that I should send the payment - one option being to pay the money into his HSBC dollar account - and I was sent the account number.
I, in return, sent emails to him and the girl, adamant that I would honour my commitment and obligation - provided that I could be assured that I was not being lied to - and that this was an embarrasing, but nevertheless practical consideration to discuss.
I had insisted on dealing only and directly with the hospital and it seemed in "J's" messages that this was also a possibility, but no such details of account information or method of payment were forthcoming from him regarding the hospital. Other than the initial attempt to get me to send money via Western Union, no other details regarding method of payment ever appeared until later on - this information did not even accompany the JPG of "the hospital bill."
Although - apparently the alleged down-payment by "J" was made by credit card - what could have been a simpler method for me to pay also?
I have seen no proof for this deposit - it is mentioned on the JPG of the bill, but not attributed to any person - although the "email bill" from the real estate office mentions "J" as having paid it.
All this - merely a few days before I would land on my already scheduled flight to the Philippines.
A surprise trip, which when announced resulted in the original pregnancy (for which I have no proof) being declared a false alarm.
It seemed curious for such insistence on me sending the money in advance of my imminent trip.
What was the rush?
The "operation" had already happened.
There was certainly no rush later - with the girl spending a total of eleven days in the hospital - her stay extended from the originally expected three days.
There was certainly no rush to send me any information I was requesting.
There was certainly no rush from the hospital itself to communicate with me at all.
Yet here was the situation as it was painted - a "tragic emergency" - with the entire future of our "genuine relationship" depending on it being sorted out smoothly - the girl herself, the girl's family, the girl's colleagues and friends, the girl's boss - all of them holding me, and me alone responsible for paying this account - and not one of them (despite allegedly attempting it) managing to get the hospital to communicate with me.
The hospital itself would have presumably been concerned about the payment of the account - yet I did not even get a response from my emails sent to the hospital - perhaps something along the lines of "We are unable to communicate with you directly on this issue because it compromises patient confidentiality" (the excuse that has been laboured to death ever since - and yet never during - the girl's "hospital stay.")
Having failed at convincing me that this was at all genuine, with only the email containing the figures from the real estate sales office being their idea of "official proof" - I decided not to fly - not wishing to get embroiled in what appeared to be an organised racket - but I could have been wrong.
Immediately this prompted a flow of aggresive, manipulative emails and SMS from the Philippines - from "J" and the girl.
It would have been foolish of them to have denied any of my requests from this point onwards, that would have been a definite cause for alarm - on 17th August I emailed "J" requesting details of the doctors.
On 19th August "J" sends me these details including "email addresses" of the doctors.
I reply telling him that I am acting on the information urgently.
On Sunday 19th August 2007 I have sent emails to the Dra. who was suggested as "the main cooperator" - and have never received a reply from her.
I have sent an email to the other Dr. and received a prompt but unprofessionally scruffy reply from an anonymous IP address.
They know now that I mean business about checking up on all of what they have been telling me.
On the 20th August 12:27 pm UK time (19:27 pm PH time) I reveal the URL of my private blog with the ongoing story to the girl & "J" in separate emails.
On the 22nd August UK time - I receive replies from emails that I had only just sent that day to:
* One of "J" 's business associates - one of which bears the same IP address as "J."
* A reply from the British Embassy - endorsing it all and including the hospital's banking details.
Previous correspondence with them had been to no avail - this time "J" had just suggested to me that I try the British Emabssy for help.
* The hospital send me a JPG of the bill.
The statement of account bears the following . . .
Inpatient Statement of Account
Run date time: 08/21/2007 10:17:57 am (PH time.)
The accompanying email indicates . . .
We have a patient in the name of Ms. Ma. Ana Samson Betita who was admitted last August 10, 2007, but still with us due to none payment of Hospital Bill and Professional Fees.
However I do not receive this until 17 hours later - 16:56 pm (UK time.)
There is no indication of any method of payment - so I write to them at 10:16 am on 22nd August enquiring of this (the Embassy had already informed me however of the hospital's bank details 8.28 am UK time.)
Followed by an identical email and JPG from the hospital on the 22nd August 11:23 am (UK time.)
I receive a reply on 22nd August 15.37 pm (UK time) indicating the banking details and that the British Embassy had been making enquiries, followed by an identical email 23rd August 11.06 am (UK time.)
The same day (23rd August) 1.56 am I had received the Four Feathers email from the girl - indicating that she is "out of the hospital" and that she had "arranged on the previous Saturday (18th August) for her family to settle the account."
I email the hospital 10.16 am (UK time) asking them to confirm payment of the account.
50 minutes later I receive the identical copy of the first email with the banking details.
On 29th August 12.56 pm (UK time) I receive another email from the hospital stating -
Dear Sir,We havent received yet the payment in our account. Hoping for your great response.
It will be noticed that the hospital themselves never go as far as actually asking in any way for payment.
The statement of accounts is just that - a statement.
The bank details merely state . . .
"You can remit thru our depository bank under Account : ***** Equitable PCI Bank
Dr. A. Santos or St. James Branch."
What happens after the girl "leaves the hospital" is all recorded in the story, but the point of this excercise is to demonstrate that nothing remotely official was despatched to me until after I had revealed to the girl and to "J" the on going story - recorded in all its glorious detail in my private blog hosted on MySpace (the one that was later hacked and deleted an hour after it was made public.)
The dozen or so emails containing my suspicions that I had sent around may have bothered them, but that was done - nothing could undo that - but the threat of the story going public - worldwide, to an immeasurably vast audience - obviously represented a serious threat to business.
All of a sudden - after this - I started to get a response from them - it had become obvious to them that I was not going to settle for anything less than a document from the hospital - which presumably was much more serious and incriminating than the one or two undocumented phone calls that I had made to the hospital directly.
Now the hospital would have to commit to something.
The JPG of the bill bears a "Discharge time and date of 13th August 6.28 pm (PH time)" which is around the time that I received the figures from the real estate office - in an ordinary email from one of the girl's colleagues - she had allegedly just returned there from the hospital where she had collected a "xerox" of the bill.
Now - as far as I know - you cannot take a "xerox" without there being an original.
So - apparently - a paper copy of a bill has been around since this date - 13th August.
Why was I sent nothing until 22nd August?
Why have I never been shown anything else by way of supporting paperwork?
Why did "J" not communicate with me after 19th August?
Why did all his urgency for the money suddenly go stone cold?
Why did the real estate firm not reply to my email sent to them 22nd August?
Why have they never attempted to directly establish their innocence?
The only attempts at this have been completely circuitous, underhand and totally void of any solid detail or anything material.
The only attempts at this have been via the girl initially, returning into communication with me - and later on via a whole community of bloggers.
The impression given by both the girl and the bloggers has been one of defensiveness - avoiding any confrontational discussion of detail - the making of excuses - deception and total denial.
Why is all this effort being put in - and there is already considerable energy been spent - resulting in nothing at all being forthcoming by way of proof - when if this proof exsisted - it would be the easiest thing in the world to produce and demonstrate?
Such a pronounced and stark silence from the people directly implicated is most unnatural - equally so is the deafening clamour produced by all those others - completely "unconnected" to that implication.
Yet there is obvious collaboration between the two, as proved by the deliberately neglectful attitude to demonstrating anything remotely official or unequivocally genuine to answer my suspicions - and their simultaneous hostile and resolute insistence that their version of events is the true one.
It doesn't add up at all.
Unless - just as the girl was protecting the real estate company with her protracted denials - the real estate company, with their dumb silence, are protecting someone else - higher up the ladder of corruption - and the bloggers are simply following instructions to blow a smoke screen of accusation to distract attention away from this powerful source.
Powerful because of fear - powerful because of wealth - powerful because of position.
The MS word document from the "legal counsel" via the hospital emailing system in response to my emails to four members of the board at the hospital - was an obvious attempt to placate & pacify me - and smells as much like an official document as horse dung imitates eau-de-cologne.
It was not because "J" or the owner of the firm were slack in answering emails that they hadn't replied to my further correspondence - for I received a very swift reply to my email under the pseudonym "John Goodwin" around 4/01/08 - a reply that contains some very dubious phrases for a person who was 100% certain that an operation had happened - because by his own admission he had "witnessed the girl in the hospital."
How can someone even allude to the slightest possibility of it having been a scam and simultaneously pretend absolute certainty that it wasn't?
It does not add up at all.
Of course there is the video recording of the strange looking scar being smudged by the girl's thumb - the implications of which are obvious - and would appear to vindicate all suspicion - and yet the whole video is immediately and conveniently denied or dismissed.
We have all the suspicious activity on the website of Noemi Dado - connected herself to real estate - straight away issuing a denial that she knew "J" personally (when no-one at that time had suggested otherwise) - although she knew of him & had been a neighbour of his.
Her real estate website contained a write up for the very same real estate firm that "J" worked for - the article in fact that had brought me to Noemi Dado in the first place.
Who else could possibly be more ideal in ridding this firm of the menacing blog on the Internet - who else other than Mrs "Celebrity Blogger" herself - who spawned blogging into the Philippines - Mrs "SEO Campaign" - Mrs "let's call this a hoax campaign" - Mrs "let's do a video interview with the girl " - Mrs "let's allow her to mention her scar, but let's not ask to see it, but let's pretend we know absolutely that she's innocent - despite the fact that we know she is an expert liar" - Mrs "in fact let's not ask for any proof at all" - Mrs "Malicious, corrupt, blogger" . . . who indeed could possibly be more ideal than her?
Please read the whole story at Hospital Scams Philippines.
Coming soon - Introducing "A."
