About me.

And now the first of a succession of generic emails designed to keep me involved in the scam for the week it'll take to mature:

Hello my friend Henry!!!
I am very happy to receive your letter and I am happy to have it now. Really it is very pleasant for me to read that you want and wait our meeting and that you are ready to support me. To me very pleasantly that you can protect me when I to arrive to you. And I shall feel that we to have good time together.
As I already wrote I the lonely woman, and me 27 years. I live and was born in the city of Yoshkar-Ola, I live here all my life, and to me very few countries for this time were possible to look, but I hope that I can see more in your country. I have been given birth in not to the big family and I only have my parents and my sister. My growth of 175 sm, my weight of 56 kg, I really to have a good body.
I have no what children, and I when was not for the husband, but I really hope for that that when be in the future I can create my family and to be very happy woman, it really is my biggest dream. I do not search rich for the man for me therefore. That I to not count that this most important in the man. I think that main this respect and honesty, and love of the husband. The woman - soul of family, in family which the favourite person desired to love, was Long-awaited, which he liked, the family and hastened to the house. It so I think, should Be in family. And on my travel, would be desirable to meet the good man.
I have easy character: I cheerful, kind, interesting. At school I was very cheerful and very interesting girl, I was fond very much of many kinds sports, and I always very much loved employment sports. My sports a favorite it bascetboll, I really very much love this kind of sports, and I frequently to look it on the TV.
After school, I had training at university of the city of Kazan, it is one of the best universities in our country, and for me there was a great honor to finish this university and to have worthy work. But in due course I began to understand that in Russia, the respect for this work is not enough and I have decided to try to find work for myself in your country, but it suffered small not success. And here now, I to try to make it is independent, I really very much hope for it.
My work takes from me a lot of time and consequently, I to try to communicate in the free time more with my close people. I carry out a lot of time with my parents and my sister. She to have the daughter, and her 8 years. She very good girl and I to try to do for her very much much because it is my unique niece and I very much love her. We to go to park and on a beach much, our games are very cheerful, and we to understand each other.
I have received a holiday from work till September, 15.
When in me the free time - is not enough, I - go in in cinema, theatre, etc. I do a meal for me directly. The best way in me appears a potato baked with cheese. I?? many salads because it is good for my figure. I love music, but basically it is radio. Basically I love our Russian executors.
But I cannot tell to you, I love what management, I listen to all on the few. I started to study professional English language several months ago. I love it, and it Very interesting to me. I hope that my English is clear for you and you are good to understand all that I to write to you.
I very much like winter and consequently, I always to choose holiday from work at this time, I to consider that this time in which has many the good moments and consequently I to try to make much at this time.
I hope that my story about itself was interesting to you and you were happy to learn more about me. Please send me more yours pics. Please if you can that write to me as more about yourself and your life? What the entertainment during your life does you?
Have good morning today, and good mood all the day long, and knowing that our meeting very
soon.
I kiss you.
Yours Tatyana.

I couldn't keep myself from giggling when I received this email. What woman writes, "I have a very good body"? Since when is it winter in Russia in July? How is a baked potato with cheese anyone's idea of good cooking? Oh, and keep an eye on the pictures she's sending me - they get steadily sexier. I had to start having some fun with this scammer:

To me very pleasantly that you can protect me when I to arrive to you.

Protect you?! You're not in some kind of trouble, are you? I'm just a librarian, never trained in the military, never even owned a toy gun. - and so it begins

And I shall feel that we to have good time together.

Well, I just hope I can live up to your expectations.

That I to not count that this most important in the man. I think that main
this respect and honesty, and love of the husband.

That's very mature of you.

My sports a favorite it
bascetboll, I really very much love this kind of sports, and I frequently to look it
on the TV.

I'm a cricket boy myself, but I do respect the other sports out there. They're all serious athletes, and deserve our respect, especially the hard-working professional wrestlers.

After school, I had training at university of the city of Kazan

Oh? What did you study? Maybe it's something that would help you get work here.

When in me the free time - is not enough, I - go in in cinema, theatre, etc.

Oh, you'll love it here, then. There are independent shows here most nights of the week, and there's the West End in London when that's not enough.

I do a meal for me directly. The best way in me appears a potato baked with cheese.

I'm a meat-and-potatoes man, so a baked potato with cheese is right up my alley. Or pie and mash and jellied eel. Mmmm.

I?? many salads because it is good for my figure.

Clearly.

Very interesting to me. I hope that my English is clear for you and you are good to
understand all that I to write to you.

Certainly better than my Russian! Never fear, I think I get your meaning most of the time.

Please send me more yours pics.

I've attached some pictures of my cottage in Norwich and the town itself, since I have no more of me, I hope you like them. - more random Googling

Please if you can that write to me as more about yourself and your life? What the
entertainment during your life does you?

Like I said, I mostly stay at home and read or watch the telly, but occasionally I'll treat myself and have a short at one of the many, many bars in town, and maybe see a movie. I do have a really large miniature railroad setup that I modelled myself. I can spend hours just watching the trains go round and round and round. It stops the screams in my head. - this is a theme that runs through the remaining emails, inspired by a classic C.S.I. thread

I kiss you.

Steady on! Why don't we meet and see how things go before you go down that route? You need to think of this as a vacation with prospects. That way, you won't be too disappointed.

Thank you for the very interesting email. I think I'm starting to get a clearer idea of your life, and can see why you might grasp at opportunities abroad. I still think you're rushing ahead too quickly but I'm not going to be condescending enough to tell you not to; it is your life, after all, and yours to decide how to live. Just how close are you to your family? But have you spoken to your parents and sister about your decision to come over here? I think they might have some sensible advice for you. - strange man asking about how much your family knows? Warning bells? Not for 'Tatyana'. 'She' can't see past the dollar signs.

Anyway, all the best,
Henry

P.S. The pictures attached are my home (the one with the car in front), the bridge near my house, over the river that I go walking along to work and back, and the station in Norwich where I'll meet you if you decide to come stay.