I have been emailing a girl from orsk russia for 1 month now. she has given me all her info birthdate, address,everything. She has sent me many pictures. I met her on yahoo personals. she has no cancelled her profile etc. she has never asked for anything. I even tried to send her something but refused. saying postal workers would steal things sent from overseas. she has no phone. say she is in the process of getting one. I have given her my address and name she has done the same. She claims she is tired of russian men. I dont know if this is a scam or a start to a scam. Can anyone give me some advice.
She is correct in saying the postal workers will steal it. It does happen. Not all the time but often enough to be a known problem. A little unusual she does not have a phone. I would wait her out and see if she gets one. I suggest you ask her to use skype to call her. Many Internet cafe's will have skype set up on their computers. The best thing is it is free for the both of you if you both have a skype login. Of course she will have some cost for her internet time but that is all.
Yes, they seem to be practically universal among women in Russia and Ukraine. (Men who have spent some time there, will have seen that it's not unusual to have 2 or even 3 active phones.) I believe that there are many who are too poor to have them, but such unfortunates aren't likely to make profiles on dating websites -- they are part of the massive rural poverty that is invisible to most visitors from the west.
But even for a city girl, who considers her mobilnik a necessity of life, mobile phones (or their battery chargers) do break (it even happens here in the USA!) And they are a favorite target of thieves, it is quite common to hear of a phone being stolen.
So if her phone died, or was lost, she may be without one for a while. But I would be very surprised, if she didn't get a new one within a week or two.