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The Lyubov Letters - I

Lyubov is lookin' for love. Let's see how she'll take to Herbie Buttplugg.

Conventions within the thread:

E-mails from the fraudsters are in black.
E-mails from me (Herbie Buttplugg) are in italicized green.
Red X's represent characters that have been changed to protect personal info.
Comments from me are in bold black.

The game commences with the scammer's initial e-mail.

 

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[ Dec. 2, 2005 ]

From: cobb eckart <992chakkala@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: hello. i see you profile and now write to you Hi !
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:31:32 +0000

How are you
My name is Lyubov.
I live in Russia.
I want to get acquainted and find love.
A few words about myself:
I have black hair and black eyes.
I am searching serious relationships - if you want
just to play with me
I ask you not to answer on this letter!
But if you want to find LOVE -
my email:
l
lubockka@xxxxxxxxxx.ru

I send to you my picture.

In the next letter i send more picture.
I will wait your answer with great impatience.
Hope to hear from you very soon!!!
email:
lubockka@xxxxxxxxxx.ru

sincere yours,
Lyubov...

Lyubov

 

 

What's with the postage stamp sized photo?

 

 

From: Herbie Buttplugg <buttplugg@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
To: lubockka@xxxxxxxxxx.ru
Date: Dec 3, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: hello. i see you profile and now write to you Hi !

Dear Lyubov,

Hello. It's really nice to receive your email. What is your last name, Lyubov?

Are you from the Randy Singles Agency? I didn't know they had clients in Russia. I think you were supposed to contact me through the agency but I guess it doesn't matter. What is your client number so that I can look you up?

You saw my sexiest picture in my profile but I will include another one here.

I'd like to hear back from you soon and please send more pics of yourself because the one you sent me isn't very big at all but you look very beautiful. I can send you more of me too.

I hope to hear back from you real soon.

Love,

Herbie

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Peewee Herman will make a fine Herbie Buttplugg.

 

 

Two days since Herbie's last e-mail to his new sweetheart. I hate it when these idiots can't hold up their end of the game. I'll try one more time.

 

 

From: Herbie Buttplugg
To: lubockka@xxxxxxxxxx.ru
Date: Dec 5, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Hello Lyubov...

Hello

I didn't receive your last reply. Can you send it again or are you just trying to tease me. You are very beautiful and I'd like to get to know you. Please reply. I'm desperate for love and you are the only one from the agency that has responded to my profile since July. I live in Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. and I'm just spending my free time in movie theaters right now pulling things I shouldn't be pulling.

If you need some pics of me in the nude I can take some and send you them if you like.

Please reply.

Yours sincerely in love,

Herbie

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From: Lyubov
To: Herbie
Date: Dec 9, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: Hello

Hello Herbie! I have seen you on a site of acquaintances and have decided to get acquainted with you.

I have never communicated with someone by the Internet and I don t know what to write, what will be interesting for you.

Well, let s begin from my name: my name is Lyubov. I live in Russia. The name of the town where I live is Cheboksary. It is placed on the north of Russia. This town is not big but it is cozy and beautiful. I am 28 years old, not married. I work a nurse in the children s hospital. What is your profession? I have black hair and brown eyes. My weight is 55 kg and my height is 168 sm. I am going to send you my picture, hope you will like it.

Please send me your pictures, if you have them. I got married in 20 years old and had 6 years of family life. And then unfortunately we divorced. And are you married, do you have children? If yes, what are their names, how old are they, what do they do in their life - I have no my own children. I regret about that. I'd like to have children, but it happened so in my life that I didn't experience the happiness to be a mother, but I'd like it very much. For my happiness, my job is connected with children. And it a little compensates lack of children's warmth. What is your attitude to children?

I like to read interesting books, especially novels and detectives. And I must to read medical literature a lot to be good specialist. Do you like to read? If yes, what do you like to read? And what do you like to do for fun? As for me, I like to go Cinema Theater and theater, to visit museum, and just to walk on the fresh air. I enjoy of meeting my relatives and friends. Unfortunately, I have no a lot of time and finance possibility to do that all very often. But I always try to find free time when my dear and close people want to see me!

Please tell me about your family. I live alone. I lost my father a lot of years ago and my mother died 3 years ago. It was very difficult for me to lose them and to realize that I am alone. I have good relatives and real friends, but all they have their families, but I am alone. That is why I have decided to try to find dear man for me abroad. It is so difficult to met good man in Russia. May be you have heard that a lot of them drink a lot. It is more awful illness than others. My husband drank and I wouldn't like to feel what it means to be a wife of man who drinks one more time. I just want to be happy as any woman in the world.

I have no my personal computer that's why I go to Internet cafe and use the Internet there. I am sorry but I won't be able to write you very often, I have no such possibility. I hope you will understand me and will not offended if I write you not so often as you want. O.k.!? I think I must end the letter. I was glad to answer on your letter. Hope to receive your answer very soon. Hope you will interested in communicating with me. I will very happy to get your letter!

Bye-bye!
Lyubov

P.S. maybe it is interesting for you to know where I studied English - I studied it only at school. I like this language very much - it is very simply and beautiful. And do you know something on Russian?

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It almost looks like a legitimate appeal for a mate. Don't be fooled. This is a scam.

 

 

From: Herbie Buttplugg
To: Lyubov
Date: Dec 13, 2005 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: Hello

Dear Lyubov,

It's nice to finally hear from you. I just got your email last night. I've been thinking about you all weekend and wondering if you would ever reply to my email.

What is your last name, Lyubov? I don't have any children and I'm not married but I have a girlfriend but if we get together I will be willing to tell her to screw off.

I think you are beautiful. Do you think I'm handsome? I can send you dome pictures of myself nude and I'd like you to send me some of your nude pictures.

I see that you like to go to the cinema theater. I like to spend my time in the theater also. There's a good one here in Sarasota. Who's movies do you enjoy?

I hope you reply soon. I am interested in meeting you.

Love,
Herbie

 

 

From: Lyubov
To: Herbie
Date: Dec 15, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: Hello

Hello Herbie, nice to write you again. I am really happy that you have written to me! I didn't still believe that I am communicating with you! How are you? And I am o.k! I'd like to continue to tell you about myself.

I want to tell you about my work, because it takes great part in my life! As I have told you I work a nurse in the children's hospital, I work in the surgery branch. There are there the children whose illnesses require the surgery treatment. I take care of them, tie up their wounds, treat the surgical seams, easing the pain and etc.

I work with children - it is so great. They are so pure, naive and defenseless. I so love children. I love my work. And do you love your work Herbie?

I think that I would never change my job. I would change only one thing - the salary! It is hard work, but the salary is too small. I dreamed to be a medical worker since childhood. When I have finished the school I was really sure that I would get the medical education. I dreamed to study in the medical institute, but in our town there is no the medical institute. I had a lot of reasons not to go to another town. One of them was that I couldn't leave my mother. She was ill very often. I have no sisters and brothers; there was nobody with her except for me. And I had to be with my mother at this period. So I finished the college and began to work. I know that in your country nurses have the higher education, but in Russia we have only secondary education. I was studying for 3 years.

And after ending the college I was invited to work in the children's hospital. At first time I was afraid, because I didn't know how to find the common language with children. It turned out not as difficult as I thought.

Herbie what about you - what educated establishment did you finish? What was your education? Why did you choose this profession and do you work on this profession now? I chose this profession because i wanted to help people. In fact health is the main and the most valuable thing in our life. The health it is happiness. And it is so great that I can give people the health and it means I can make them happy. And it is more important that I treat children. I make happy them and their parents. I get a great pleasure from taking care of small children. They are so thankful. I am happy too when I see the smiles on their faces and hear their sonorous laugh. Oh, it is so great, it is so wonderful! I am happy person, because I have found my place in the life. I am thankful to the God for that. And you please tell me more about your job. It will be very interesting for me. Work takes the biggest part of our time and it is very important do you love your job or not. I was lucky, my choice was right. I want to tell you that I have a special ability, I have a special internal feeling: I always really know what to choose, what to do min different situations - it is very good capability for medical worker, isn't it? Very often I was convinced that my choice was absolutely right. And I am sure that I chose you among a lot of other men on dating site not casually. I felt that I had to choose you. And I am happy that maybe the God showed me on you. I like to communicate with you, really like. I hope that you will give this pleasure to connect with you very soon! I am waiting for your answer! Have a good mood and health! Bye-bye! Lyubov

P.S. I have found some my photos. I send you them: you will have the better representation about me, you will be able to imagine whom are you communicating with.

Well, I have the hope that you will like it! please write to me what do you think of these pictures and of me.

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I wonder what dating site our Lyubov could possibly have chosen Herbie from.

 

 

From: Herbie Buttplugg
To: Lyubov
Date: Dec 18, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Hello

My dear lovely Lyubov,

You are so beautiful. I just can't get over how happy I am that you chose to write to me.

Let me tell you a little about myself. I am 32 years old. I am a fashion model and I also do a bit of television acting. I'm not too busy with my work right now and so I have quite a bit of free time at present.

I have a Masters degree in B.S. and I am also a S.o.B. I am single (surprisingly) and I have no children that I am aware of. This is because I like to keep things in hand.

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't gamble. I really don't have any bad habits that I can think of. Well...one, but we won't discuss that right now.

I would really like to see some more of your pictures. I would love to see more of you. You truly seem like a lovely person.

I want you to answer something honestly. Am I the only person from the dating site that you emailed or did you email some other people too?

I hope to hear from you again soon. If you have any questions about me, please feel free to ask. And try to send more pictures of your lovely self. I enjoy looking at them so much.

Love,
Herbie

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I never heard from our Lyubov again.