This craigstlist blurb made me laugh today. Here's an excerpt:

Dear Russian girl posers:

I’m not sure exactly how successful your little racket is, sending out carefully crafted emails in broken English to guys with personal ads at various sites. But let me give you some advice to improve your business model and marketing techniques, ........

If you imitate bad grammar, remember the rule “a little goes a long way”. Hacking up each sentence in an attempt to sound “Russian” it can be quite obvious that you are doing it on purpose. You might as well phonetically spell out a fake accent. It also really helps to mispell a couple of words too. It raises the credibility. This doesn’t work so well: “Hello. My name Svetlana. I looked profiles and have seen yours profile, I liked yours profile and I would think that to me very much would be desirable to get acquainted better.”

Keep the email address of your potential victims/customers better organized. If you send one email message under the name “Ludmilla” and then send the identical message again under the name “Mariya” soon after, even the most desperate and vulnerable guys will most likely make the connection. It’s possible that some will just think you have a nickname, but there will be fewer of us.

I used to get these things on friendster all the time, part of the reason I am no longer paying any attention to that profile!

Source: austin.craiglist.com