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The following are links to Agencies' responses to a basic survey. This list will be updated in the future and I will attempt to survey more Agencies. These responses are for your information only.

Attention Agencies: You can complete the questionnaire for the readers, by going here:Questionnaire

If the Agency you are dealing with isn't listed, YOU may wish to ask the same or similar questions of it. The questions of the survey are:

1. Please list the full name of your agency and URL.
2. Please list the owner and/or principal manager of the agency.
3. Please list any other agencies commonly owned and URLs if applicable.
4. Please list the office address and phone number of the agency.
5. Please list the name of your webhost or describe how you have connection to the Internet.
6. Please indicate which of the following services you offer and indicate the costs if any associated with the type of service.

7. Without divulging any trade secrets, please describe how you acquire your profiles or clients.
8. Do you or your staff meet the profiled-clients in person prior to posting their profile?
9. Do you conduct an interview in person or by telephone with the profiled-client?
10. Do you sell the addresses of your profiled-clients?
11. Do you prohibit your profiled-clients from providing their home addresses or telephone numbers to their foreign correspondents?
12. Do you censor or monitor or modify in any way the communications between the profiled-clients and their foreign correspondents?
13. What steps did you take to verify the accuracy of the information provided to you by the profiled-clients? For example, do you ask for proof of birth date, education, marital history, familial history or work experience and if so what is required?
14. How often do you update this information?
15. Approximately, how long does it take to remove profiled-correspondents that get engaged or married?
16. Can a profiled-client request removal or modification of her profile and how long does this take to comply with such a request?
17. Do you have exclusive profiles? In other words can the person listed or profile posted ONLY be found or contacted at your agency?
18. How would you respond if you found out one of your profiled-clients was listed at another or a number of other agencies?
19. Do you have a refund policy and if so please describe it?
20. Do you have formal procedures for addressing complaints from your clients?
21. What would be your response if it were reported to you that one of your profiled-clients had defrauded someone out of money?
22. How would you describe your role or involvement in the relationship between your foreign correspondent-clients and your profiled-clients?