Presuming that she got my email address from this forum how many more of you guys have got this same email?
She claims to live in Nizhny Novgorod but the email was transmitted from a dial-up in Mari El, a.k.a. Yoshkar Ola:
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Subject: I have decided to write to you!!! And little about me.
Hello its Elina. I think that you are astonished to get my letter.
<jangelina@hotmail.ru> my personal e-mail.You can write me on this
e-mail. I want you to know that I have only good intentions and I have
not any secrets. Possible, you can ask me, why I didn't find a russian
man? I will be very serious, I will answer to you, that I had a
boyfriend from Russia from my city, I loved him very much, but he has
thrown me in last time. He found an other girl, as I have understood.
I have decided to search for the husband abroad Russia as I want have
strong happy family. In Russia men want only sex and creation of
family for them on last place. They are afraid of it because they not
trust in the happy future and are not sure in tomorrow's day. I think
that I only spend the time in Russia, I not so young woman and would
be desirable me of a constancy, love and simple female happiness. I
think that I have deserved it. You probably are surprised that I have
chosen you. I read yours profile and I see that you too lonely and
want the same as I. You too want find the half in a life and it has
involved me in you and has interested. I know that men of the West
think of family and about the future. I have decided to take advantage
of the Internet and to find here the happiness and love. I heard on
the TV that the Internet helps people and I have decided to try to
make it and I have written to you. I hope that we with you
correspondence will grow in serious relations.I am non-drinking and
non-smoking girl. Simply, I don't have a harmful habits! I can speak
and write English language. let me to tell to you about me more. I'm
28 years old.I 5 foot and 7 inch. I weight 125 lbs.I am blonde and i
have green eyes. I was born on May, 20. when you was born? What's an
exact date of your Happy Birthday? Tell me, ok? I'm White Russian girl
on nationality. On religion, I'm Christian( Russian Ortodox), and I
believe in God Jesus. I was MARRIED,but I have been divorced 2 years
ago AND I DON"T HAVE A KIDS. I'm a sensitive, a kind-hearted, a
thoughtful and easily amused. Probably, I'll finish my e-mail to you.
I'll be grateful so much, if you'll write me about yourself so much,
as I did it. I would like, if you'll tell me, for example, about your
city where are you living, about the weather, is there a hot summer? I
have never been in abroad, and I'll be glad to know about your
country. Ok, let me to finish my e-mail, I hope to see your answer
soon!I write to you more about myself in the following letter. I hope
that you'll like to look on my photo. Ok,good bye, hoping to see your
message soon! Sincerely, Your friend from Russia, Elina. opps I forget
to tell, that I live in city NIZHNY NOVGOROD in central a part
Russia,near river Volga.
Sorry Olga,
My crystal ball hasn't been functioning recently and unless one logs in before making a post it is not something that becomes immediately apparent, nor was any announcement made by the forum administrators!
That said, these organisations collect email addresses to save or forward on thus remains the fact that my email address was displayed on this forum for a year or more. Of the some 1000 spams my spam filter 'sorts' each week a high proportion of these are clearly FSU related so you go figure?
Martin
I occasionally get these and have corresponded with some of them that sounded nice and have become friends with a couple of them. None of them have tried to scam me so far. I think they may be getting the emails from their friends or from some other service that collects them. The girls may be able to get service credit or something for supplying emails to some agencies.
Not sure how they got my email, but I have had not problems with them trying to scam me.
i think spammers can get your email address from the contact list of someone else emails. Someone you have written to.
it is just like viruses work: once they get into someone by an infected mail, it is send automatically forward to every address that the infected mail account has in the contact list.
For this reason, it is good to add a contact to your list kind of: aaaaaaaa@aaaaaaa.com, wich will be listed ahead of the list. As it is fake, it will fail, and it may stop the process of the virus to keep sending emails to your list of contacts.