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Many wives suffer in silence with unfaithful partners - now they can 'get even' say the honey trappers

Love Rats Watch-Out

CHEATING Asian men in Greater Manchester are being targeted by a two-girl 'honey trap' team.
Stephanie Lord and Cathy Bradshaw have set up their own love rat investigation firm and have already caught 25 Asian unfaithful husbands on tape and film.
They are hired by Asian wives suspicious their partners are "playing away". They "bump into" the man concerned in a bar or other social environment and flirt with them, testing to see if they respond
While their service are on offer to all women, their work so far has been mainly for Pakistani females suspicious they have cheating husbands or boyfriends.
The honey trappers have called their firm Vishwas - faith. Demand for their services is growing and they are planning to expand their business and hire more female staff.
The Asian connection began when Stephanie, aged 26, was approached by her friend Saira Yasmeen (not her real name) from Longsight, Manchester.
Saira suspected her husband was cheating on her with several women.
Said Stephanie: "Saira didn't know how to catch him so asked me to chat him up and see how far he would go. Sure enough when I met him, we exchanged phone numbers, went out on several dates, we spoke regularly over the phone and when I had enough evidence I gave it to Saira who then confronted her husband.
"Saira told her friends and several of them contacted us asking us to test out their partners. The business has just grown this way by word of mouth."
The duo say their intention is not to break up marriages but to help women catch unfaithful partners.
Said Cathy, aged 24: "We find out details about these men and then turn up where they socialise. We try to make eye contact. More often than not they come over and try to chat us up.
"In some cases only one meeting is necessary. If a man indicates he wants sex at the first meeting that's it, we leave them hanging and report back to the wife."
Added Saira: "To get concrete evidence about your husband's infidelity, and then to confront him with it, is the best feeling ever.
"You know there's no way he can deny it and even his most elaborate excuses wont work. It's the best thing I ever did."

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Asian men easy targets for the honey trap two
Saira Yasmeen (not her real name) had been married eight years - a union that had produced two girls.
She shared terraced home in Longsight, Manchester with her husband.
Her suspicions started when he started getting calls on his mobile at odd times. She could hear female voices. Quite often her husband would make an excuse for leaving the home after receiving one of these messages.
She became convinced he was 'playing away'.
But how to prove it? Without concrete evidence of her husband's unfaithful behaviour his relatives would follow the Asian custom of blaming her for any marriage break up.
This was when she turned to her white friend, Stephanie Lord. She asked Steph if she would chat her husband up and record the conversations to see how far he would want to go.
Wanting to help her desperate friend Steph agreed to 'accidentally' bump into Saira's husband while he was out with friends in the Trafford Centre.
He was an easy catch.
Steph made eyes at him and, before she could make a move, he approached.
He used one of the cheesiest chat-up lines in the cheating business.
"Do you have a map? I just keep on getting lost in your eyes," he said.
Saira's husband and Steph had a drink, exchanged phone numbers and arranged to meet again.
They went out on three dates before he finally wanted to take things further and asked Steph to come away for a weekend.
Steph then cut off all contact and presented the damning evidence to Saira.
Said Saira: "I took the conversations between him and Steph that had been secretly recorded. You should have seen his face. I even had pictures that showed him with Steph but he still denied playing away.
Saira and her husband separated without her suffering any loss of reputation in the community.
"He knew there was no way he could get out of it. It's the best thing I ever did. And when I told my Asian girl friends, they all wanted to do the same."
Several approached Steph and this brisk business gave her the idea of setting a 'honey trap' business specifically aiming at Asian women clients.
She recruited her friend Cathy Bradshaw and they set up their firm called Vishwas which means faith.
Said Steph: "I felt a great sense of achievement when I helped out Saira. If she had left the marriage without any proof that her husband was faithless people would have blamed her saying she didn't want the marriage to work. But Saira was blameless and she was able to shame him instead..
"It was easy work and when Saira's friends asked whether I would do the same for them I knew this would make a great business.
"We're both quite attractive so its very easy to chat-up men. I don't feel we are doing anything wrong. Some people might say it is unfair on men when they are faced with a flirting attractive girl, but any man who is faithful to his partner would be able to resist the temptation and give us the brush off - and some do."
Vishwas has now been running for six months and business has been good. Most of their clients have contacted them by word of mouth.
They have had over 30, ninety per-cent Asian, the others were Middle Eastern or black.
Said Steph: "Generally Asian men love the idea that other women are interested in them. In many cases we just turn up at places where they either work or socialise and after they've seen us a couple of times, it's time to make our first move but in fact we hardly have to, we find they usually come on to us."
The girls have found a bit of background research goes a long way. "We have both got good knowledge about Bollywood and sometimes we'll wear clothes that are a mixture of east and west. The men seem to like this. When I talk about Shah Rukh Khan or how I think Amitabh Bachchan is really good, their eyes just light up."
Once they have made the initial contact, it is time to find out just how far these would-be Lotharios want to go.
Said Cathy: "Our job isn't to sleep with them, it's simply to find out through dates and conversations exactly what they want from us. Rarely do they mention they are married or involved.
"No physical touch is needed, all we are doing is reporting back to the client. Our mission is not to break up happy relationships but expose dishonest partners.
"When we feel we have enough evidence we stop and present our findings."
They have also found that there are faithful men.
Five of their clients were happy to find out their partners did not give into temptation.
Said Steph: "Those incidents are rare but when it happens we feel good because then we can go back and tell our clients good news.
"This is something we would want to carry on with. Our family and friends do not know. I don't think they would understand. That is why we prefer to have Asian clients. With white clients, there's a good chance family might find out.
"It's a safe and easy job, so far none of the men have been any wiser and each time we go out I make sure Cathy knows my whereabouts.
"If we get any busier we may even have to expand and hire more girls. In the meantime we are quite happy helping Asian women test their partner's fidelity"

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