Are there really Russian and Romanian women that want to date you?

I was looking in my Gmail Spam folder this morning – for an email that was mis-labeled as spam – and ran across several hundred spam messages advertising “Russian Women wanting to meet you” and “This Romanian woman is HOT!!” and similar come-ons.

First, are there really men that stupid that would respond to these?

Second, is it all a big fake? Are there really Russian and Romanian women that are behind these ads? Or is there something else – like fraud – going on?