I was told by my aunt (happens to be one the admirers of this blog) that an Australian national was scammed by her filipino boyfriend. So, being the ‘investigator wannabe’ that I am, I tried to google everything up to really get a glimpse of the issue. I arrived to Brian Gorrell’s blog and hey, the blog got had my hour and a half without me noticing. The issue is that Hot.

Well, this is not directly related to Filipinos Money Making Online but it sure does merit enough importance to blog about.

It turns out, Brian Gorrell had an affair with his Filipino boyfriend named “DJ Montano”, the relationship lasted a year and some months. Yes, it was a gay relationship just to clear things up. Allegedly, DJ Montano scammed him off by promising to open up several businesses in the Philippines including a portuguese restaurant and a travel booking agency. As he said, DJ Montano got more than $70,000 from him. Now that’s a large sum of money.

Before this blog will turn into a “Celeb Chuva Blog”, im going to let out some insights about this issue focusing more on blogging.

I realized a couple of things about Brian Gorrell’s Blog including:

• Blogging is an effective campaign method - Tell you what, his blog has an alexa rating of 82,730 at the time of this writing. That’s 5 times better rating than I had on my Teens Make Money blog which ran for 7 months. And the most amazing thing is, his blog is merely a month old! Hows that for an effective campaign?
• If you want people to sympathize, Blog! - Clearly, brian is not an expert blogger but he sure does have my support. After months of precious time dedicated to blogging, you will have this ‘blog-sense’ sort of a spiderman sense in a blog kind of way. (lol!) Anyways, I noticed one of his posts even had over 200 comments and counting! Ive ran through them and they are not converstational comments, they are people passing by saying they empathize, they hate, they love, some even dont care. No matter what people are saying, comments under posts would mean you are creating buzz and thats what Brian Gorrell’s Blog is all about.
• Cautious Blogging -I watched the evening news today and justices are looking into the possibility of charging Brian Gorrell of Libel. Now, this is not to scare you off blogging but my point is, if its not worth saying, you better not. I dont want to sound biased about this as I dont have business with Brian or DJ but you should be cautious enough as what you say can be read by millions.
• Brian Sure Knows How to Keep Visitors - Consciously or unconsciously, brian is keeping visitors by telling them that he is about to release ‘101 things public dont know about gucci group’ (the group of DJ along with Tim Yap, etc). This is creating much anticipation as his visitors would love to know more about the group. Im even anticipating for it my self. Just a tip though, he would have used feedburner to simplify everything up. Should I email him? hmm. . .

That’s it guys. I hope this one shed light to this issue. Did I miss anything? Feel free to let me know about it. Im keeping a close watch on this issue as well and ill be sure to let you know more about it.

Update: He has a petition running to keep Tim Yap, Celine Lopez and DJ Montano out of The Philippine Star. If you want to know more about it, please refer to this link.