I am in total agreement with one of the above posts, this is a big operation involving multiple con artists. I didn't get taken for any money, thankfully, but I will admit that after a little resistance on my part, she was starting to win me over with her flattering letters and gorgeous pictures. However, I was really suspicious about the fact that she never seemed to answer many of my questions directly. Also, she claims not to have access to a telephone. I mean, come on now, I have been to even third world countries where just about everyone has a cell phone, and she wants me to believe that in Russia there are no phones in her town? So I did a google search after her 'mum's' fake letter (read below), and thank god I found this site and others like it. This one goes by the name of Niki, but as you will see if you read all of the emails that she switches and all of a sudden her name is Irina. She responded to an icebreaker that I sent to her on Yahoo Personals. Here are her letters in their entirety: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:27:47 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Hello Hi Mike! Have good day!. The computer in service of acquaintances found to me Some structures of people which coincide with my inquiry. I Preliminary studied them and has decided to send you to the first the message Because your structure seems to me more interesting. I hope, that You have time to send me some messages that we could it is better to find out each other. I shall tell a little about myself; my age of 27 years old , I still would want that you named me Niki because I avoid to speak the real name. When I went to school, guys which studied together with me teased and offended me because of my name and consequently I have thought up for myself a new name Niki. I was not married and I live in an apartment of my parents . Some years, after the ending of training I work as the tutor in a kindergarten. To me To like productive leisure, periodically go in for sports for maintenance of a body. I like to travel and be in different places, but My work does not allow me to do it frequently. I have many friends, We sometimes together spend time, play billiards and tennis, we have Other entertainment. I send you the picture that you knew my person. Also I want to ask you to send me some pictures of you. Please Ask things interesting you about me and inform me some The information on you: what you love an entertainment? What your character? What You love qualities in women? Whether You had the wife? I shall answer on your questions and to inform you it is more about itself in following E-mail! I shall be To wait for your messages. Mine the address nikilifes@yahoo.com Your friend Niki. Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:24:14 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Your Russian friend. Hi Mike! Have good day!I like your photo. Mike, you ask, where I live - to To regret it is far from you. Otherwise it was not necessary for us much e-mail, To learn each other. I for the first time have acquaintance through the Internet. It was very difficult to me to place my structure in a service of acquaintances, because I am in Russia, the service of acquaintances does not accept the members from this country. I had to specify in a structure, that I am in USA. In this letter I shall inform you a little information myself and if the dialogue with me will be interesting to you, I shall tell about myself in more detail in the following letters. I live in an average part of Russia, in city Izhevsk. But if we shall decide to meet, I hope, that it not Will be a problem for us because I have made a little Travel to other countries. I was in the several countries of Europe; For example Turkey, Italy, Germany. I made these travel as The tourist. Therefore Mike, you should not have excitement be relative That we not beside. I such woman, that if I shall like The person for a meeting I shall reach even on the moon. Besides in Our days is not a problem to make such travel. I not I worry about it and I have necessary feelings to get acquainted and it is possible To have relations with the person of other state. It is very interesting - Other culture, thinking, traditions. For me this new- Probably and you Mike Can learn , that such the Russian woman. I wait for yours e-mail, my American friend. Yours Niki. Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:08:21 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Where are you? Hi , I was sad that you do not write me and do not answer on my letters. There can be I you than that has offended or you simply play with me in games? I wait from you of the answer. Yours Niki. Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:46:41 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Glad to hear from you HI Mike ! I am pleased to receive your reciprocal message. Mike You e-mail means for me, that I too was interesting to you. You Really Mike, see a picture of me nice? - OK, in the following Messages I shall send you other pictures of me. Mike, at me is present to you It is a lot of questions and I would like to ask them in the messages, I hope you Will allow to me answers to them - OK? You for me the nice person, And on this for me it is important to know your opinion on some things. I think, that you read my structure and could see there, that I haves serious intentions to get acquainted with the good person for relations . I shall try to tell a little about my character. I do not know as it to start, I think, that I very romantic person. I like to communicate with people, it is pleasant to me Good humour. I very much appreciate such qualities in people, as fidelity and honesty. I believe in love, and I think it very valuable thing which needs to be protected. I very much The jealous person. I adore, when to me pay compliments and is ready to listen to them indefinitely. For me it is necessary, that around of me there was a cleanliness and the order, I frequently am engaged cleaning. Also to me to like to prepare for a meal, various tasty things. It is pleasant to me romantic relations between the man and The woman, but probably all women dream to get acquainted with good The person to have with him beautiful romantic relations. But frequently such things come to an end Very quickly. I have no intention to spend myself on such acquaintances. While I have not met In the life of such person to which I would decide to give myself and the life. But me it would be desirable to find such person. I think, that for the woman the main thing to have in a life not Career or other success, and strong family and the favourite person beside what to care of him. Tell please, you dream to meet what woman in the life? Excuse Mike, that I ask you to discuss such frank thing with The person whom you know couple of days. But it is interesting to me to know It about you. I have shortly written to you my outlooks on life if to you there will be it interesting, That we can discuss these themes in more detail then. I shall wait for yours e-mail. Yours faithfully Niki. Attachments Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:13:16 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: It is my life Hi Mike. I am glad to receive again your message, every day we We start to learn each other better and for me it is an interesting thing, Yours e-mail. last time at me on soul is present boredom, not Occurs any joyful things and your message now for me As a solar beam. Mike, thanks, that you wrote to me some answers to my questions. Yours e-mail what you the person gradually helps me to understand. Mike I send you other picture of. I hope, that it will be To like you. Tell to me more in detail about the family. Whether it is a lot of at You relatives? What at you with them of the relation? As frequently you Gather? In my family very much close relations. I to you already Informed, that I live with mum and the daddy. We live in a cosy apartment, where There are three inhabited rooms, and as kitchen, a balcony and a bathroom. I have a room. I the only child at the parents. A name my Father Paul, him 52 years old and he Works the builder. My mother Galina, her 49 years old. Now she does not work some years and Is engaged in housekeeping. We like each other, sometimes We are chosen for city for an entertainment. In the summer we go on a beach and on fishing. During the winter period of time we go for a drive on skates and a ski. This good time for me! In private life I have emptiness. Last relations at me were the last year. One was The boyfriend, but I have left him. we did not like each other and had various interests. Among associates of me of people I cannot allocate anybody for serious relations. Good men to become it is ever less and annoyingly in Next time to test disappointment when you think that has met The suitable person. Likely therefore I also have addressed in service acquaintances. Probably here I can find the person who will be Me to love, appreciate and understand. It is not important for me his financial situation and work by which he makes. I have specified in a structure that I search more Advanced age because I think, that the person which has lived There is enough years, already has experience and has learned to appreciate women and to address With them. I shall be ready to give myself all without the rest to such person and I think, that the main advantage of the woman is fidelity and skill To make family happy, without quarrels and conflicts. On it I I finish the letter. Mike, write to me the ideas that I Has told to you. I wait for your messages. Yours Niki. Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:21:11 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Have good day Hi Mike. It is pleasant, that you studied my some ideas in the last message. Mike, I usually do not tell about the deep ideas and opinions, but to you has written, because has felt desire to open it to you. I more independent woman, but probably sometimes am necessary that there was one man, which can to open and trust - sometimes frequently it happens hardly to reflect on all these things. I am glad, that has found at you understanding me, you see it happens not frequently. Mike It is time to me to go to do some businesses and it is necessary to meet the friends. By the way I told by him, that got acquainted with you, and parents too. Have good day. I wait for your letters. Yours Niki. Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 01:31:34 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Hi , sweetheard Dear Mike! Thank for yours e-mail. your messages are very pleasant to me. This week I have a new theme for reflection, and these new ideas excite me. I do not know, how you Mike, but for me starts to have importance our exchange of messages. I want to tell, that it is new emotions, In my quiet heart. For me it is unusual to begin relations with the e-mail. Such situation that there is a distance between us, - draws my ideas to you. I for a long time have understood, that if is present, some difficulties to achieve the purpose,- That desire to achieve this the purposes increases. Probably it is one of those things who forces me to reflect frequently about You Mike. I think, that I should grasp your heart and you cannot struggle then with this female magic. What will you answer me it dear Mike?. Dear Mike, I again want to set to you some questions: That there are main values in your life: family, work, money Or something another? What your plans for the future? Write Mike also inform your ideas, I shall wait your messages. Yours Niki. Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:53:42 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Hello , gorgeous Hi my dear! I now read yours e-mail, and it was interesting to me to find out your opinion that I spoke you in my last message. Our exchange of opinions is interesting to me and I think, that now I can make some opinion on what your character. Dear, unfortunately I have no a home telephone number what to call to you. I live in new area of city and yet does not work for us in one quarter telephone station. I at work have telephone, but the administration does not permit us to use the telephone in the personal purposes, differently there can be some problems at work, and at us very strict rules. Mike, I send you a new picture. I too would want to see more than your pictures. Dear, I would like to find out, how you like to spend the free time. I very cheerful person also think out Various entertainments for itself and the friends. To me to like to help them to make life interesting. It can be different things: Dances, cinema, parties or entertainments on the nature. But if to speak frankly in the last these entertainments give time I have less than pleasure. I frequently dream of romantic evening with the favourite person, it can be a supper or simply walk . I think, that in it there is a lot of charm. You the romantic person Mike? Whether you think, sometimes, of such things? You like cosy evenings with the family? I very much love holidays when all family gathers, behind one table. It is very cosy and comfortable for me. And how you like to carry out holidays dear? What for you makes a cosiness and rest? Tell to me please about it Mike. Mike, excuse me for a question: whether there is at you now any woman? I think, that you are good, as the man and To like many women. Because at me good taste, and you to like me. What your private life now, Please tell about it. Probably you have to me any frank questions? I shall answer them. Write to me more in detail about the feelings and desires, to me to like to read, when you tell about yourself, I am ready To listen about it. I wait for your messages. My embraces. Yours Niki. Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:41:45 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Why you do not write? Dear mine , where you were gone, why any more do not write me the letters, I wait already what is the time, and them all no. There can be I you something has offended? Write to me please. With impatience I wait Niki. Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:10:10 +0400 From: nikilifes@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Hi, sunshine Hi my lovely Mike! I am very glad to news from you. I missed without yours e-mail. Today on work I thought of you and, it was pleasant for me to know, that there is a person, which which thinks about to me, reads my ideas and writes something for me. And how you Mike? You these days missed on dialogue with me? Today we with friends plan to have some entertainment. It will be possible it is club or a disco. It is a pity, that now not there are opportunities to invite you there because you it is far. I think, that we with you could carry out perfectly together evening. I hope, that we shall make still it in the future and we can well have fun. I am sure, that it will be good time for us Mike! We shall drink easy wine, then to dance, while our legs can maintain it. And after that we probably shall reach somewhere else....., and where I shall make with you some things. Ideas about it me beforehand raise. My imagination very much advanced and I can represent for myself many details of ours appointments. Probably, dear, it is time to me to finish this letter, and I now shall write that a lot of superfluous and I shall have then confusion before you. I wait for yours e-mail, my lovely. Embraces and my kiss!!! Yours Niki. (NOTE: THIS IS WHERE IT REALLY GETS WIERD. SHE CHANGED HER EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE EXACT SAME TIME THAT I NOTICED THAT HER YAHOO PERSONALS PROFILE WAS DELETED) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:07 +0400 From: rnikilifest@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: From Niki Hi! I want to inform you that with mine Email the address has taken place what that a problem and I cannot receive your letters and send you the letter. I created new Email the address and I hope that you will write to me. I wait for your letter. rnikilifest@yahoo.com. Niki. Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:33:26 +0400 From: rnikilifest@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: Are you ok? Hi mine lovely! I hope, that at you all OK! It was pleasant for me to read your message and thank for your words. I send you other picture, probably to those pictures which you already saw, you got used. I hope, that This picture will give again to you good emotions. Today my work is finished earlier and I, having written to you this letter, I shall prepare for a dinner for my family. Mine to mum is sick a little and today to me to prepare for it. By the way, dear, what foodstuffs is loved for you? That you prefer; sweets, meat, a fish? Inform me it Mike. I am able to consult not bad on to kitchen, my mum cared of it many years back. You can be convinced of it, in due time. I easily make various salads, soups, and also game and a fish. In the greater degree I prefer a fish, and also to me very much to like fruit; kivi, bananas, pineapples and a melon. Today houses I shall prepare for the chinese hen and vegetable salad. Probably you Mike, love the tasty foodstuffs. We have proverb; ' the way to heart of the man - passes through his stomach! ' I was many times convinced of it when observed of my father. Therefore Mike, I shall reach to your heart with the help of my culinary abilities. It is a joke!!! Now I go on kitchen . I hope, that mine the daddy will be pleased. I wait for your messages! My kisses. Yours Niki. Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:15:07 +0400 From: rnikilifest@yahoo.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more To: Subject: It is me my dear Hi my dear Mike! I am glad to speak again with you! Thank for yours e-mail. I am glad Mike, that in our relations there is a promotion and we became more close people.I like your photo. I tell about you mine much to parents and friends. They hope, that will sometime get acquainted with you Mike. They insist, that I would acquaint you with them, my parents are especially persevering. I have told him , that is serious I treat you Mike, also that you the good person. You know Mike, that parents always wish children only good and are pleased, when their children are happy in all. The daddy loves mine fishing and he now goes pleased on an apartment and speaks, that now he has person , which can be invited for fishing. I for a long time laughed and have told to him, that at all I do not know, you like it to do whether or not. Also that he early it is pleased, in fact it is possible to you not interestingly. Also know, that he answered? he has told, that in the summer he will be going for you good fishing tackle also will learn you to cook present to an ear. And you Mike, told to close people about me? What they have