update: I thought I was posting in new member introductions but I guess I created and entirely new thread.
ll'll just leave it here.
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I'm aware that I could be being scammed, but maybe not, so I am exploring what's true.
I met a filipina online (on purpose) and we have been chatting several months. Her cost of living and mine are so far apart I want to help her and her family (mom and cousins). I offered, she didn't ask.
She works as customer support on a night shift and she earns about $12 a day. As a programmer, I make ten times that in an hour. She doesn't know that.
Her mom raises a few pigs and I offered to help them replace pigs that recently died of African Swine Flu.
This forum is for introductions so I will stop there and try to find an appropriate place to post followups.