Thursday, 19 July 2007

Ok'Date!

In spite of all my cautions to the contrary, we were now on track for a date:
Hello my dear friend Henry!!!
How your day today? For me the big happiness to receive your letter and to know that you to want our meeting and we can be together. THIS BIG HAPPY. I am happy that you to answer my letters and to inform me the information for me which to me is important. Now when I to know where I to fly and choose the airport, I think that we can to meet and to not have problems with it. I am really happy that you to write to me very good and clear the letter for me. It is fine. I am really happy that I can to have a meeting with you. Your letters kind and beautiful for this reason I to not be mistaken that I to search a meeting with the man from UK, your men is more decent than Russian and consequently I want to have our meeting.
Today I learned more about that when I can take my ticket. To me inform that I can not to take my ticket while I to not have the visa in my hands. It mean that I can to inform you the information on my ticket and an arrival time only July,25 when I to receive my visa.
I HOPE THAT IT IS THE BIG PROBLEM FOR YOU THAT I WILL NOT INFORM THE INFORMATION ON WEDNESDAY?
I think that will be more convenient if I can already fly to you on July, 26 so I shall long not arrive in Moscow and and it will allow me to save my money. What you to think of it?
My visa will work in current three months, but I can remain only for one month therefore. That I shall have holiday from work for two months. If we can really know better each other I really could remain longer and perhaps I could have work in the your country. It would be valid very well for me. I shall take the ticket for me with adapted date of returning, I think that it will be convenient both for me and for you and if we shall have what or problems in our attitudes, I can fly home at any time. I think that it well.
My visa will work on all territories the in your country and if you will want to show me other states your country it would be very good. I really want to see your country and it will be pleasant for me if I can know more about your country and your culture. I to hear about your country much and I to consider that it is the great country. I the sociable woman with easy character And prospect for a life. I love the noisy companies, but also and I like to be on a
nharacter. I think, that you have many beautiful places there. I think that we shall really spend very good time together, I want to communicate with present the man, and to see his attention to me. I think that we shall not have what problems in studying each other, but I nevertheless would like that you wrote to me more about yourself and your life. I as would like to see more yours of a picture, I think that it will help us in the airport when we shall see each other.
I hope that you will have good day today and good mood.
I very much wait for your letter and I hope to receive your answer very
soon.
With best regards Tatyana.

This email provides the timeframe of the scammer; 1 week to keep the punter's interest on the boil and bring in the cash. I now knew to expect a request for money on the day the visa comes due. 'She' is also being very careful to check my identity, you'll notice, asking for additional pictures. It's a little obvious, though, that it's a form response, because although I gave a location in my previous email, all 'her' references bar the first are to 'your country' rather than the UK or England. I decided to finish setting the hook before starting to poke fun:

Your letters kind and beautiful for this reason I to not be mistaken that I to search a
meeting with the man from UK, your men is more decent than Russian and consequently
I want to have our meeting.

Well, thank you, that's a lovely compliment. I'm really glad to be such a good representative of British men. I'm not sure that you'd think the same if you actually met some of the men over here, but that's another matter entirely ;)

To me inform that I can not to take my ticket while I to not have the visa in my hands.

That's a fairly ubiquitous rule. - actually, it's typically the other way around, but who was I to argue?

It mean that I can to inform you the information on my ticket and an arrival time only
July,25 when I to receive my visa.

That's not really a problem. Like I said, the room's free anyway, and I have no social life to speak of. You could literally call me from the station when you arrive!

I think that will be more convenient if I can already fly to you on
July, 26 so I shall long not arrive in Moscow and and it will allow me to save my money.
What you to think of it?

That's okay, as long as you're comfortable negotiating your way to Liverpool Street Station from your arrival airport, and then up to Norwich. Your English seems up to the task, at least.

I can remain only for one
month therefore. If we can really know better each other I really could remain longer

That seems reasonable. It's far more likely, though, that we'll find you some work and that you'll get back on your own feet and get together with someone you actually learn to care about.

I shall take the ticket for me with adapted date of returning

That's actually an excellent idea. It would give the the option of returning when your funds run out, or you get tired of England, whichever comes first.

I think
that we shall really spend very good time together

I'll do my very best while you're with me, rest assured.

I nevertheless would like that you wrote to me more about yourself and
your life.

There's not much more to say, to be honest. I eat in most nights, catch the occasional movie - very much the solitary pursuits. I thought I might take a holiday to Australia in a few years, maybe dive off the Barrier Reef, but otherwise, I just keep myself to myself.

I as would like to see more yours of a picture

That's the only one I have, I'm afraid. I'm a little camera shy, and wouldn't even have that one if not for the Librarian of the Month award I got a year or so ago. - and... parry!

, I think that
it will help us in the airport when we shall see each other.

It's okay. You'll stand out at the station - not many girls as pretty as you around here! - and... riposte!

I hope that you will have good day today and good mood.

Thank you. I wish you the same.

All the best,
Henry