The prevalence of dishonesty, fraud, and neglectful service from international marriage agencies is very high. We see this from two perspectives, one from our clients who relay their bad experiences with other marriage agencies and two from our own direct encounter with international marriage agencies.
This Philippine mail order bride site stole most of International Introductions website. A witness on an Asian mail order bride forum said it best:
"I took a look at both sites, and this isnt just cutting and pasting photos. This guy apparently cut and pasted the whole damn Web site, then changed the photos and a few words around and inserted Filipina girls in place of the Latinas. He copied text word-for-word and then inserted the word Philippines or Filipina in the place of Colombia or Latina, etc. I got a kick out of this one:
Original Latin site: "There is a reason why Colombia has the lowest divorce rate in the world; their world is centered on the family."
Copied Filipina site: "There is a reason why the Philippines has zero divorce; their world is centered on the family."
Actually, divorce is illegal in the Philippines, unless you are Muslim. Hows that for blatant plagiarism and outright lies? The dumb-ass even copied the copyright statement and changed "United States" to "Canada". What a dork…
International Introductions put this site out of business.
A company in association with the defunct Love Me Latina agency loved our site so much that they copied every word from International Introductions and cloaked it on to hundreds of different domains. There response and action:
"We paid someone for original work text and they must have grabbed some text elsewhere and used it verbatim. If you will provide me the text you have copyrighted, I will make sure it is removed from our sites immediately. I will work diligently with you to do so. Our sites are built using a random data compilation program and an outside contractor whom we since fired supplied text fragments, they were long since terminated. Please send us the text you wish removed and I will handle it instantly and permanently."
As we proceed you will see no one says, "Ok, you caught me." Its usually an inadvertent technical reason why our material landed on their website.
Here is one of our FAQ questions regarding age and Colombian women. Brazil singles (Brasilsingles) liked our answer so much that they changed Colombian to Brazilian and the reference to my wife Karina to Juliana and used it for their own FAQ page. However there is no mention of who Juliana is from the Brazilian agency as there is to my wife Karina on International Introductions website so their theft and name alteration without a reference to who Juliana is does not make sense. I guess when you lack ideas and integrity you miss the finer points of creative writing.
11 - DOES IT MATTER HOW OLD I AM TO BRAZILIAN WOMEN?
What The Other Latin Mail Order Brides Agencies Will Tell You
"Many of these Brazilian women prefer older mature men who may be double their age or more."
"In most cases, your age or looks is not a primary concern to South American women."
"Your looks, age and race arent important to Latina women."
What My Experience With Brazilian Women Will Tell You
This is not true. Your age and looks will be the first two things they evaluate. The younger you look, the better looking you are, and the more qualities you have will dictate how young you can go. What is true is you can generally knock another ten years off the minimum age you could attract in America.
If you are 43 and able to date American women as young as 35 years old than you should have no problem finding an even better looking 25 year old Latina bride. Yes, the degree of beauty will also substantially improve. An American version of Juliana would not notice my existence, while a Brazilian Juliana finds me exceptional, yet I'm a typical guy.
An average man with average qualities will have no problem attracting a very good looking Latin woman. Believe me, the difficulty will not be finding your level of Juliana, but trying to select from the multitudes of Juliana's that will express an interest."
International Introductions has not contacted this Brazilian agency preferring to show you a live sample of theft (brasilsingles.com). Unfortunately for our demonstration they went out of business in 2005.
As the competitors source for new ideas even marriage agencies that have been in business for 10 plus years (Latin Life Mates in Bogot, Colombia) come to International Introductions for ideas. If we are good enough for our competition to study imagine how good we must really be.
"There is a reason why Colombia has the lowest divorce rate in the world; their world is centered on the family. Colombian women stay with their first family until marriage and then the tradition continues with their new family."
"There is a reason however, why Colombian woman have the lowest divorce rate in the world. Simply put, Colombian woman are extremely loyal, and once they leave their immediate family to begin a new life and start a family of their own, they dedicate themselves to keeping that family structure intact."
(As of April 2005 
)
"Latins are the fastest growing minority in the U.S."
"Considering that Latins are the fastest growing minority in the US,"
(As of April 2005 )
"Unscrupulous business practices in South America are real, yet the Latin beauty to discover is also real. It was from this recognition that the determination to deliver a legitimate "mail order bride" marriage agency with honest opportunities became a realization."
"These unconscionable practices are not only disgraceful, but they reflect badly on services like Latin Life Mates who provide a legitimate opportunity to bring men a new life."
(As of April 2005 )
"You will meet our local manager the day of your arrival for guidance on how to make your trip safe, exciting and fruitful."…"We know of all the precautions that will make your trip safe, enjoyable, memorable and rewarding."
"He can explain everything you will need to know in order to ensure that your trip is a pleasant, productive, and memorable one."
(As of April 2005 
)
"What is true is you can generally knock another ten years off the minimum age you could attract in America."
"It is our experience that you can deduct about 10 years off the age of a woman you would normally date in this country."
(As of April 2005 )
They love "borrowing" International Introductions material and ideas. "Engage the Exotic" is an International Introductions trademark protected slogan. One of our advertisement copies reads, "Engage the Exotic your opportunity for an exotic engagement discover a Latin bride." I Love Latins (formerly Barranquilla Beauties) added to their websites affiliate page for Amigos.com, "Engage the Exotic your opportunity for an exotic engagement discover Latin bride." Our demand for I Love Latins to remove trademark protected copy went unanswered. Many days later they changed "exotic" to "erotic" (how clever).
(Sept 2004 
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Barranquillas Best (Latin Dream Tours) also liked our slogan "Engage the Exotic" which they were using as a text link to their site 
on their "Spanish Dream Girls" web site 
a dating directory page which claims to be "The Complete List of Introduction Agencies in Latin America", but it is really an advertisement directory for an association of agencies all under the same ownership Latin Dream Tours (so much for honesty). Our demand that they discontinue the use of our slogan on 7/13/2004 was acknowledged and removed from their web site the next day.
But this did not stop Barranquilla's Best continued admiration of International Introductions. We have a webpage called "Throwing Money Away" where we take quotes primarily from various Latin women forums on customer experiences using other marriage agencies. Well, Barranquilla's Best loved our idea and did their own version titled "Wasting Your Money" and then "Wasting/Time Money" (
) taking many of the same quotes with one primary alteration. Barranquilla's Best announces, "These are not statements about Barranquillas Best or Latin Dream Tours." Now if you have to say this you know something fishy is going on. Take one statement from Barranquilla's Best webpage "Wasting Your Money", "Wasting/Time Money" , "I spend 4 days sitting in the agencies office meeting no one. It was frustrating to go all the way to Colombia to meet women and then just end up sitting in an office meeting no one." Now read the original customer complaint from this Latin women forum where the quote was derived, http://www.goodwife.com/archives/latin/display.php?archive=158&id=61165.
Unfortunately for this unhappy client of Barranquilla Best's not only was the statement about them and only them, but the one and only Latin woman he met scammed him for money as noted in his later post. In 2006 Barranquilla Beauties deleted their webpage page referenced above but not before the documented evidence was posted on the Gringos.com board under the subject heading Going to Barranquilla?
True testimonials and complaints can be traced to a source. Find out who said what about whom and then verify the accuracy of the quote. It is unlikely the agency will tell you, most Latin dating agencies follow the precept that the bigger the lie the more likely you will believe it. International Introductions is happy to show you the source and full context of all our quoted material.
Latins Connection another Barranquilla marriage agency that does not list a local office also loves our slogan Engage the Exotic. They were using Engage the Exotic as a description link to their site on the dating directories. This one was from A Single Place directory:
"Latins Connection: Engage the Exotic Latina. Introduction to Latin mail order brides. See pictures and videos of Latin women and Colombian women. Find a beautiful exotic Latin wife."
Demands to remove our slogan was met with:
"…This introduction is really general and it has been used for many latin agencies on-line, this is the reason because we use it." "And "Engage The Exotic" is only a phrase that is present in some search engines, isnt our slogan, is only a phrase…
Our response:
"… the slogan belongs to International Introductions under the umbrella of laws that protects original work. We made it very clear to you that this was an original creation and that the proper position was for you to create your own slogan or in this case advertisement title instead of stealing ours. Even if there was no such protection after bringing this to your attention the appropriate action should have been to create your own copy/heading instead of taking ours. But instead you try to defend your position not from a moral ground but a legal one. This does not speak well for the integrity of your company. Legally we are not required to register a trademark to receive trademark protection as long as the mark is actually used in commerce (for example in advertising). "Engage the Exotic" is protected under the law even without a registration. Registration only secures added benefits beyond the rights I have all ready acquired by actually being the first party to use this trademark in commerce… Instead of just pointing me to the "United States Patent and Trademark Office" you should have read what they wrote: "You can establish rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark." Now please remove any mention of "Engage the Exotic" in reference to your website Latins Connection…
Latins Connection ultimately removed all our slogans.
Angelica Introduction was using a variety of excerpts of International Introductions copy such as:
…Will Tell You Latin bride Engage the exotic Doesn't Matter… … Engage the exotic Engage the exotic What International Introductions Latin MailOrderBrides… …
This website with our copy would then automatically reload to their home page (a cloaking trick). Upon demand they immediately removed our slogan and copy,
"Removed. Sorry about that. The data for the directory was collected directly from search engines so if you are protecting your trademark you should remove it from all search engines which indexed and put your trademark for public use without your permission."
This was an invalid explanation, search engines index websites that are copyright protected that others can access not take.
A marriage agency that steals from another agency or uses deceptive means of doing business is not going to have any qualms about using like methods with you. These guidelines for selecting a marriage agency can help you select a marriage agency with integrity and capability. While the competition uses International Introductions for surface improvements you can experience the full extent of our unique method for discovering the ultimate Latin wife. Our Personal Introductions is one successful match after another. The others will copy our material and use our ideas but they will always be steps behind our success rate.
"I have a feeling there arent too many sites like ours that carry strong moral ethics and pride. We dont view you as a competitor but as an inspiration. As our site is a hybrid agency-dating site, it is growing and we hope at some point well be able to take a good niche service like ours to the mainstream so people dont get scammed like they do on. My wife, Alexandra, the true inspiration for Latin Love Search.com admires your work with Latin-Wife.com. Keep up the great work and best of good fortune with your internet ventures."
Owner of Latin Love Search
"I am starting a similar business in Peru. I realize that I will be a competitor but I admired your site so much I wanted to write and introduce myself I just wanted to let you know that I admire the way you do things and your site is absolutely splendid, the best."
Owner of Loyal Latin Women
"I am sure that many people have told you your site is very good I want to congratulate both of you on the effort you have put into building your site."
Owner of Equator Singles
