From Russia With Love?

I take a bite of the skeptic fruit every morning, so when I received a message from the rather attractive and interesting Alina from the Russian Federation I suspected a Russian mafia plot was at work.

After all, scammers are most likely to trawl the Internet Dating sites looking for desperate looking sad types, start chatting and before you can say “Chernobyl”, they’ve got a passport, emptied your bank account and you’ve just become a permanent feature of the latest M60 widening work.

I’ve had a similar message from a Russian girl before. I forget the name now, but she looked absolutely stunning and, as such, instantly raised my suspicions. After all, to continue with the stereotypical views, we’re all ugly desperate types on here right? She said she was from Moscow, but since her message originated from Birmingham (I must have missed that bit on the news when it was annexed to Russia) I ignored it.

So again, one side of me is telling me to completely ignore Alina’s message and treat it with suspicion, whilst my other “glass half full” side is intrigued by it all. I’m certainly not desperate, nor am I completely stupid, so I may just set up a freebie e-mail account and send her a reply – if only out of coy interest. But if there’s any talk of money, or concrete, then I’m outta there.