# Anyone else get swamped in sappy Russian dating spam? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928 "2013-03-03T17:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/1 "2013-03-03T17:44:33Z")
I think I"m the only one that’s getting these sappy Russian “I am in loving your so much” dating emails. Several arrive every night, and it seems like the Bayesian filtering on Mozilla Thunderbird fails miserably, despite how they all seem the same; the “I’m so in love with you” theme, no line spacing, URLs in the Ukraine. A few examples: > [@](#): > > Aloha > I imagine us together at a table for two with candlelight and wine with my future sweetheart though i haven’t met him yet. > When my future sweetheart is laughing in my dreams, I feel the world stops, when he holds my hand, When I feel the wind on my skin I feel my future sweetheart presence in my life, when the sun warms my skin I know it’s his breathe warming me when I walk in the rain. spam.spam.ua > I want to meet a man with whom we will support each other and our love will guide us in life. I am looking for a tactful, strong, intelligent, caring, romantic, kind, well balanced, self-confident, reliable, devoted, affectionate and passionate man who has strong family values and is able to provide for his family. > thanks and good luck > Elsa > [@](#): > > Hello my dear friend > I would become the most devoted person for my Prince charming. > I hope my future sweetheart will accept my heart as his own and listen to both of ours beating as one, he will inspire me for everything I’ll do for him and he will become my reason to live. > I enjoy reading, traveling, listening to the music, growing flowers and going to theatre. www.spam.span.ua > I know that very soon I will fall in love with him, my Right Man. > My dream is to find reliable and clever man to give my affection and care to start a family of my own. if you are interested write me > Carmen > [@](#): > > Aloha > I am unhappy and sad looking for that special someone to make me smile. > I am easy-going and kind-hearted lady. > I am fond of animals, candlelight dinners and growing flowers. spam.spam.ua > I believe I’ll meet him in the nearest time, I breathe and dream of meeting him. > I am waiting for our love story impatiently. > A rivederci > May > [@](#): > > Privet my dear friend > I am cheerful and kind, ambitious, serious, responsible and aspire to self-perfection. I like traveling and sightseeing, watching tv and going to the cinema spam.spam.ua > I am looking for serious, calm, wise, responsible, reliable, faithful, socially successful man who will share whatever life brings us. > See you later, > Charlie > [@](#): > > Privet, my friend! > I can’t believe that I’ve finally found YOU, the one I’ve been looking for and waiting for my entire life! If your eyes are wise, if your voice is low and sexy, if your palms are gentle and sensitive, if your smile is sincere and serious simultaneously, if your heart is able to love, if you are passionate and know how to make a woman happy, than you are definitely my type of an ideal man. And if you want to make my dream come true, you will find me at spam.spam.ua I will be happy to get to know you closer and to talk to you eyes-to-eyes. > Sincerely yourth > Lena D. Privet? Their salutation is a bush? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/2 "2013-03-03T18:07:15Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Privet? Their salutation is a bush? Better than a privy. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/3 "2013-03-03T20:15:05Z")
I get them all the time, from women (I’m a woman) and they usually include pictures. Very prim and proper pictures. Totally unlike the pictures from those other women who give me the secret code so I can go look at more pictures of them for free. I can’t share the code though or they will find out and punish me. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/4 "2013-03-03T20:34:52Z")
Do you mind PMing me some of the links please? I might be able to tell you more about it. I get some like these but they rarely have links. Gmail catches them all. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/5 "2013-03-03T20:48:20Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Privet? Their salutation is a bush? It’s ‘Privyet’, which is Russian for Aloha; it’s not easy to take something written in one alphabet (Cyrillic) and directly transcribe it in another alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/6 "2013-03-04T14:44:34Z")
Not Russian dating spam, but Indian dating spam. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/7 "2013-03-04T20:09:33Z")
Perhaps, **elmwood** , you are simply, internationally irresistable. IRL, do you look like Stalin? ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/8 "2013-03-04T20:24:55Z")
## This email I got included a picture of a cute blond woman. My Name is Mariya I fill like to know you. I’ll let you know about me… I’m 29 years old! Birth on 1981 31 Jan, i’m 45kg and 164cm, My Father’s name is Alexandr and my Mother’s is Name Eva. But I like feeling happy all of my days, So tell me some details about yourself including your picture, And I will also tell you more about myself with my picture. Ok! Yours sincerely Mariya ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/9 "2013-03-04T20:30:09Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Perhaps, **elmwood** , you are simply, internationally irresistable. IRL, do you look like Stalin? He looks like Lenin. Moreso when he’s sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/10 "2013-03-05T19:55:51Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > I’m 29 years old! Birth on 1981 31 Jan Bad at math, or just too lazy to update “her” spam after three years? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-swamped-in-sappy-russian-dating-spam/651928/11 "2013-03-05T21:45:31Z")
Lots and lots of it lately, and like the OP, my spam filter is missing most of it for some reason. I got this really confusing e-mail from Miss Lyubomila Kabitzkiya: \*Can I ask you? "Was you ever have sex with a Russian girl? Would you like to try it?" I am Here now - a guy looking for dating and sex.\* And Virginiya Arshinnikova writes: _Hello - you are the man that I needed all my life - I dream only of you, very bored, come to me, I divorced my husband who wants something that is new!_