The new Nigeria

What is it with the Russians?  Below, from a recent trip through the spam filter on my Atlantic email account. My Gmail spam filter doesn't show any of this -- I imagine because they have already worked out more sophisticated multi-language anti-spam tools. (Click on the image for more detailed view. And here for earlier Russian spam.):

Now, if only they'd be considerate enough to send the spam in Chinese, so I could read the subject lines. No larger point here, but it is odd.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/04/the-new-nigeria/13003/