I have just received an email from a Russian woman called Svetlana, who tells me she is 25, “blonde with blue eyes … I have not children and I have not boyfriend here”. She is hoping to work abroad and is looking for a man from USA, Europe or Canada to “be my guide”. She says she wants to leave Russia “because it is impossible to live here for young pretty woman”. Although I’m not in a position to help her out any way, it seems I received the email in error. And for some reason, my mail server filed it in the junk mail folder …