You might NOT be getting what you paid for
The following review relates to my experience across mid-December 2024 to mid-January 2025. This is in regards to the dating profiles (and communication experience) and does not speak for their tours side of the business, which I have not experienced.
I should mentioned that I signed up to a-foreign-affair.com with them also using the web addresses of a-foreign-affair.net and loveme.com
Back in mid-December I started googling "mail order brides" just out of boredom to see what the International Dating scene was like (after watching a documentary on it). All the sites seemed too good to be true. Every woman was model quality. On a normal dating website, you have your ten out of tens, right down to the... well... you get the picture.
I then came across the "Agent Nesty" Youtube channel and her video where she claims she went through training for these mail order bride websites, and how she could have chosen to be a model and/or letter writer on these sites. The aim being to keep the letter chain going as long as possible, as each letter costs the guys to send and receive.
So, with a small budget (a couple of hundred dollars), I took on a one month experiment.
I first looked at the A Foreign Affair website(s) and found the perfect woman to contact. Yevheniia, Profile Number 219730. 21 years old, red head (and I love red heads), model (like they all seem to be!), born in Ukraine, but at that moment, based in Berlin.
I did both a google search of her name and image search. The name "Yevheniia" checked out with a Facebook page, but modelling, her professional name was Zhenya Foxx.
I also discovered another three sites had her profile. Two with "Yevheniia" and one with "Evgenia".
Now, instead of starting communication with her at A Foreign Affair to begin with, I started at the GoldenBride website, where she had a video on her profile saying she was on that site - profile ID number 926136 (note - GoldenBride is not affiliated with A Foreign Affair).
I emailed her back and forth for more than a week. Twice in those conversations you could tell a 'third party' was trying to get me to email (which costs credits) more than once a day, as they were a bit more seductive in nature, and didn't match the following conversation we had. Plus, all emails had two pictures from her. Who sends two pictures with every message on a normal dating site?!
Anyway, before contacting her on A Foreign Affair, I asked her to do a simple thing to prove it was her. I requested she send a picture of herself touching her nose with her left index finger. She laughed it off in her next message, but never did it, sending two other photos which could easily be found on her Instagram.
So, I moved my communication to A Foreign Affair to see if this "Yevheniia" was the same person there. I asked in my message two questions, based on what we had discussed at GoldenBride, to see if it was the same person (a favourite sports team, and favourite song).
Now, I do admit, I was shocked that she answered both questions correctly, and signed off the message with the name "Evgenia" (which she also used at the other site, instead of the publicly listed Yevheniia).
In her few messages on A Foreign Affair, she would always attached the maximum five photos, which of course you have to pay extra to see. Again, in normal dating, who attaches photos to every message?!
After more than a month of talking (when combining both sites), I thought I'd put her to the ultimate test - I asked her when would be the best time to arrange a video chat, which you can do via that website at a fee to the guy. I asked to her name any time or any days that suited her, and I'd work around that.
Surprise, surprise, she responded she was too "busy" to do a video call right now (not even a "can we try in a few weeks" suggestion).
It is fair to assume based on the interactions I've had, combined with the information from the Agent Nesty youtube video", that the model "Zhenya Foxx" has sold her image (and done a promotional video) to international dating websites, and someone else is responding as her "letter writer" on these sites.
It is fair to assume, based on only wanting to write, and the maximum amount of (Instagram sourced) images being included with each message (costing about $23US each time to open) that the "letter writer" on A Foreign Affair (and other international dating websites) is getting a financial kick-back for each communication.
Again, I cannot and do not speak for the touring services provided by A Foreign Affair as I've not experienced them.
However, when it comes to the dating website aspect, there are SERIOUS RED FLAGS and you might NOT be getting what you paid for.
January 24, 2025
Unprompted review