Since when did Russia become LJ's Nigeria?

[mountainwitch]

What's up with the random adds of users who write in Russian? I just reported about six of them as bots, although that was sometimes difficult as the menu didn't pop up every time. What I don't get is how this stuff is useful . . . If I could read the "posts," would they be asking me to forward my bank account information? Are they hoping I'll friend them--cause I know lots of people from the former USSR, ayup--and then they can troll my entries, looking for products they can sell me? ("Boris! Prepare more perfume oils at once!")

I just don't get it. Is there profit to be made in creating fake journals and randomly friending everybody you can get your hands on?

(And just in case you ARE a Russian sockpuppet . . . Укусите меня, Вы несчастные шлюхи.)