Cool spam: Lyudmila, the "e-mail-order" Russian bride scam

"At me the big age and is a lot of experience behind shoulders."

E-mail Russian bride scams are the Eurasian advance-fee fraud equivalent of the Nigerian 419 scams. They both share a love for Babelfish-like horrendous translation and gripping narrative. The "sexy", grainy & amateurish picture of some random woman is a treat in itself and well worth a thousand (badly translated) words.

Saturday 25 April 2009 :: by Thierry Gagnon

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I believe that spam is a unrecognized literary category that deserves more attention, if only to ridicule.

Here is the text of the spam I received. Line breaks were added for your reading enjoyment & the fraudulent email address was removed, for your safety:

Hello my the surprised friend!

My name Lyudmila and I wish to take away from you at all a lot of time and to penetrate in my letter! My trade the doctor the dentist. I had an ingenious idea to try to find love not in that place where I live namely not in Russia!

In me there were such emotions since recent time! I would like to tell to you about it my friend. On my work in the Stomotologichesky Polyclinic I had a chance that I will go on an exchange for practice to other city for me it it was good and not much not on myself because to go to other city on practice!

I do not have there friends or even I am simple girlfriends with which I can to spend time and speak cheerfully about problems in mine to a new life. But all has exchanged and on an exchange there has gone my colleague which only not for a long time has come to us for work after the termination of Medical university. But the desire to find the acquaintance from other country at me remains on former.

I thought of a step as acquaintance to the person from other country much. Once after work I have gone on foot because weather was fine and saw as enamoured steams follow a hand and exchange gentle kisses. I do not have not enough tenderness and the favourite person in the lives and it to me became very clear after this walk.

I like to walk sometimes one alone with myself and to think about the lives. I could not find the happiness in my city and till now is lonely. For myself I have resolved to search for the love in other country. Especially I heard much about that that people from other countries are more romantic and are careful concerning relations with women, so to say they have a spark in eyes!

I am ready completely to this step and have bought yours e-mail in International Dating Agency. To me have told that you my friend very good lonely person with kind and open heart. I wish to tell about myself directly that to me 32 years and my growth 168 see I live to Russia, city Kanash. I wish to be happy life in the and I have serious sights at this world.

At me the big age and is a lot of experience behind shoulders. I am confident that we can to find with you the general a theme of conversation and to learn each other more. I hope to see yours the letter my friend about your life. As I to place my foto with the letter and some resume in a file. I very much would like to see yours the letter and to have with you acquaintance. I would like to see that we became good friends and not only.

If you are serious and interested please reply ONLY to my personal e-mail: lyudkafromrussia@---------.com

My letter to you was sent by manager International Dating Agency therefore write on my personals e-mail: lyudkafromrussia@---------..com

Yours new friend Lyudmila.

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  • Cool spam: Lyudmila, the "e-mail-order" Russian bride scam

    8 September 2009 07:31, by Lyudmila

    Hlleo! I am teh Lyudmila. u can stay my home. I even like teh secks, but only if u r making BIG smile lollylollz. if u like peena coladiss and geting catched in sum rain i will b in ur base doing ur dishes like good RUssian plow woman! lulzzx0r I love plow for excercies and of MP3 playing too. sometim i have stealing of childrne iPods becuse RUssian children communist and mostly retarded so deserving of death

    many loves to you, may fans

    Lyudmila

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  • hello her real and full name is Ekaterina syrelnikova ( lyudmila Antonover)

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  • hello

    I exchanged many emails with lyudmila and always with new photos each email.I was contacted originally by a lady who told me that Lyudmila would like to contact me. Her email address was lyudmila.internetcafe@yahoo.com after exchanging emails for several months she finally told me would come and visit me in England (UK) now that I had seen so many of her photos I would know her ,but it would take many years of saving with her low wage,then the last email had a link to WESTERN UNION where I was asked to send her 750 euros for flight and viser I told her that I would never send money to a person I had ever met but if she could get a short term loan, I would refund the money when she arrived her.She was "heart broken" at the thought of losing me. She always called me her "Love kitten"

    I played along with her luvyduvy chat, now I am most surprised that she used various Emails,( I never believed she was a dentist more a dental assistant.) from DM (investigative journalist)

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