Well in my opinion I think I know now how to detect a "bad" filipina or a good one. I think is too obvious when a filipina is just there for money but some foreigners (overall the ones that marry bar girls ¬¬) seem blind.
I think with an easy check they could know if she is clean or not but I do not know why they do not do them. They just say "no she is not like the others"
I am 25 yo. My gf is 23 yo, she is filipina and lives in Cebu. We never were interested in each other, all that happened between us was unnespected for both of us.
She earns the minimum filipino wage right now.
I do not send her money and she never asked me for a peso even beeing there.
I told her I won´t marry soon that I need years before that and she didn´t go for other one.
She expends money from her little wage to call me to my spanish mobile and never told me to payback.
She is not interested in come to europe by the moment. She seems happy with her life and she says me "I am poor but I am happy here"
She refused from me a work I found to her in call center with more money by far than her current wage. Her reason was that in that work she would earn more money but she won´t have a good shift to chat to me cause of the difference of time.
She doesn´t know how much I earn and never asked about it.
Even earning only the minimum wage she has spent quite amount in things for me (unexpected presents overall)
Even borrowing her my old laptop that is not brand new by far (5 years old) she seemed the happiest person in the world and never requested me to buy a brand new one as others do.
She knows I am not looking a future house wife to maintain and that she will have to work as well as me.
When we started to break ice between us she told me what she likes to do when she is on spare time and I found was exactly what I like but I never told her I liked those things.
I think these all signs are good so I think I am safe with her.
Obviously maybe for me is different cause I am young and not and old man. But if people there would think with the brain instead of the ..... hehehe (sorry I did not know other way to explain it) then in some time nobody will hear again "filipinas marry foreigners for money" cause those girls wouldn´t have a chance.
A scammer or a filipina that is looking for money or leaving the country will hurry in all (soon request money for any reason, when is the visa ready, when will you marry me? etc etc) all this things happen in a short time the most and in a medium time in the rest but they show their real face soon
This is my opinion of this
About why a filipina gf. I wasn´t looking for it. It all happened by surprise.
But I like how she is. How she treat me. And I like her cause she likes the same things I like so we enjoy together always.
Take care all
Regards from Spain