AUSTRALIA MARRIAGE SCAM BEING PLAYED BY FOREIGN MEN WITH LOVELORN AUSTRALIA WOMEN BY CHARMING LURING OR IMPREGNATING THEM WITH OPENING JOIN BANK ACCOUNTS ONLY TO CLAIM RESIDENCY WITH NO LOVE EVEN IN SOME CASES ALREADY MARRIED IN HOME COUNTRY AS ONE WOMAN GOT PREGNANT NOW LIVING WITH 2 YEARS CHILD AND MAN ASKING HER TO HAND OVER CHILD ABUSING FOR 2 YEARS AND CONTINUE TO DEMAND MARRIAGE (MEANING OF LOVELORN=when somebody loves someone but they do not love them back or the person in love is miserable) LOVELORN women are allegedly being tricked into fake marriages by foreigners seeking Australian citizenships. A Logan pastor told 4BC Radio foreign men were charming women, persuading them to marry them or impregnating them and opening joint bank accounts in an attempt gain permanent residency. Pastor Sean, who chose to only be known by his first name to protect the identity of the victims, said he knows of three young women who have been swindled over the past two years. “There seems to be some sort of organised, I don’t know if we can call it a scam, but some sort of organised group that looks towards what I’d call susceptible young ladies, who are longing for a relationship, longing for intimacy and they are wooed into a secret or arranged marriage,” he told 4BC. Pastor Sean said the women were introduced to the men face-to-face in two out of the three cases he has seen. The Pastor believes the men had been living in the country on student visas. A woman, who went by the name Rose, told 4BC she had fallen pregnant to a man who was trying to scam her. Rose said she had been emotionally vulnerable when she first started seeing the man who tried to pressure her into marriage once she revealed she was an Australia citizen. She declined but later found out she had fallen pregnant. The baby is now two years old and Rose says she loves her child who has a “beautiful smile” and makes her happy. The man, who has physically abused Rose in past, now claims he wants to take the child from her and continues to demand marriage. “The only reason he was with me was because of residency, he didn’t see me as a wife, or to love me,” she said. Pastor Sean said often the men would disappear and divorce the women after two years after attaining visas. He said often the men had other families waiting for them in their home countries. Federal Member for Forde Bert van Manen said two incidents have been reported to him in the past few weeks. He said often there were warning signs people could look out for. “They should be wary of situations where someone puts them under pressure to marry quickly, people promising the world and opening bank accounts at short notice,” he said. Anyone who thinks they have been scammed should report it to the Department of Immigration. The Department of Immigration is investigating the claims.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:46:21 +0000
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