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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:27:19 -0800
Subject: RESPONSE TO YOUR CLEANER APPLICATION ON GUMTREE !!!
From: [email protected]
To: Michele banks


Dear Applicant,
How are you today? I believe you are having a great day? Regarding your application i received on Gumtree.We appreciate your quick response as we believe it portrays good sense of responsibility.I’m Kennedy Thomas and My wife’s name is Mercy Thomas.We are relocating to Glasgow from North Carolina NC, with our two son's Kennedy and Craig, I have been transferred to head my company branch in U.k,So I will need someone who could help me in taking care of the house by doing some house work while am off to work because we are expecting our third child soon and it will be very stressful for my wife to do the cleaning.

I will be offering you 200GBP weekly for your general services.I will be needing your services for 4 hours at any suitable time of yours everyday of the week (Mon- Fri),believing that 4hours will be enough for you to clean a 3 bedroom house with one master bedroom and two standard size rooms, with One Living room and a kitchen as well.I believe you are fit for this position in as much as you will prove yourself to be a reliable and hard working person.You also must not possess any form of criminal record.It is relatively easy for me to trust someone but this might come with more responsibility though with greater benefits in salary increase and fringe benefits.

My company's headquarter will take care of all your payments and other expenses,so I will instruct them to pay for the first week before our arrival so as to secure your services,actually I should have paid for more weeks but i will extend the payment if am satisfied with your service after the first week.My company will be making out a check to you before our arrival, you will be receiving a check of excess funds,in which you will be deducting your pay for the first week and you will be instructed on what will be done with the excess funds on the check,part of the excess fund will also be you used for foodstuffs on the day of our arrival which will be later disclosed to you. Actually our flights from the united states will arrive in the evening,so you will be getting the foodstuff in the morning and making all other preparations. I will also instruct my estate agent to mail the keys of the house to you as soon as the renovation work been done there is completed so that you can do all other necessary preparations before we arrive, I will also email you the shopping list for the foodstuff.You have to do all this shopping before our arrival so that we wont have to start running around when we arrive, So I would be needing the following Information from you to make out the check to you.

1. Full Name (official Salary collection Name)
2. Contact Address (P.O. Box not allowed):
3. City:
4. State:
5. Postal Code:
6. Home Phone Numbers:
7. Cell Phone Numbers:
8. Year of Birth (Just to be sure you are of employable age)
9. Acceptance of offer:

Lastly, if you are appraised to have perform excellently well for this position during the probational period, your weekly wage shall be upwardly reviewed swift reply with the above requested information.
Yours truly,
Kennedy & Mercy Thomas

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:39:53 -0800
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO YOUR CLEANER APPLICATION ON GUMTREE !!!
From: [email protected]
To: Michelle Banks

Good day,
Thanks for the response,am using this opportunity to congratulate you and announce our partnership with you,as i told you earlier.I would be very interested in offering you the post of a cleaner which if trust is build over time this might come with more responsibility though with greater benefits in salary increase and fringe benefits.The house will be located somewhere around West End and the exact address will be emailed to you when its been confirmed upon by the agent which will later mail the keys to the apartment to you before our arrival so that you can do the necessary cleaning up after the whole interior decoration has been put in place.If you live too far away from West End,you will be given a transport allowance of £30 weekly which will be included in your salary.I will be arriving on the 21th of March 2011,so you will resuming work on the same day i arrive.You have enough time to prepare for this new job.

You will be notified via email as soon as my company issue's out the payment to you,so as for you to know when you will be receiving the check and also with the instructions you are suppose to carry out in handling of the check.Normally it should take just about 1 to 2 working days for the payment to get over to you.You are also required to check your email 2 to 3 times daily.I look forward to your reply to confirm you receive and understand this mail.
Yours truly,
Kennedy & Mercy Thomas

This Scammer will send a (counterfeit) cheque or money order for far more than you were expecting and hoped that you would cash it, and send a non-existent third party a large portion of the money before your own bank or cashing agent realised that the cheque or money order was bad and pursued YOU for the return of the FULL AMOUNT, possibly pressing charges against YOU for attempted fraud and money laundering.