Reminds me of the fun I had a few years ago. Though wasn't a Russian "woman" it was a Filipino woman (yes it was a woman as we talked via Yahoo IM and was able to see/hear her)

She started off just talking then of course tried to get some money from me. At first she needed it for school, then for more internet (to talk only to me of course) then medicine for her sick mother. She gave me her phone number so I could talk with her because the internet café was expensive (I did call as you will read but I used a calling card to hide my phone number) and an address so I could send the money since I said I didn’t have a Western Union in my area (another lie of course)

I have some friends from the Philippines here in the states and one was from her apparent city. I asked him to give me a name of a small business that someone around there would know about but someone from the states would probably not.

After several emails asking me how soon I could send the money, I called her and told her that I was in a car accident and wasn’t able to work for several months and couldn’t send any money. I asked her if she heard of <store> and she said yes. I told her though I couldn’t send any money now the good news was that I knew someone in her city that worked at that store and they would help her get a job. They were going to be calling her or stopping by within the next week. I then told her I had to go and hung up the phone without giving her time to reply.

What followed was a profanity laden email saying that I had no right giving her “personal” information out and that she didn’t need a job if I just sent her the money. She said the only way for her to forgive me was to send her the money that very day. She wanted me to call her once the money was sent.

I replied back telling her good luck with her new job and then terminated the yahoo account.