by Michelle
Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:10 pm
From: Felix Turner <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: 2 Br Apartment Bayly & Liverpool - Your New Home.. ( Bayly St Pickering, ON L1W)
To: Michelle Banks
Dear Michelle,
Nice to meet you!
Now I'm going to give you a bit of information about myself and my family, I want to give you some insight into who I am.. As I said before, I'm not looking to make a profit with it and this work to your advantage, making payments extremely easy from month to month. I'm a caring person who believes in taking good care of things!
I'm currently 37 years old, married, police officer at the Metropolitan Police Service. I'm a mature individual, work hard for my family, very sincere, respectable and I love to meet new people. My wife is a speech-language pathologist, her name is Barbara, together we have a beautiful little daughter.
I inherited the apartment from my grandfather when he past away, after that it has been totally updated and renovated, it looks exactly like in the pictures! I resided in apartment for a short time, we tried several times to transfer our jobs there, but unfortunately the things didn't work the way we've expected. I like it there, but our life is here, in London, England, so we decided to rent it and keep this beautiful apartment for our daughter, when she will grow up.
This is the second time I tried to rent the apartment, I had a deal with somebody before who said he will rent it if I come there.. So I got a plane ticket, and guess what!? When I arrived there, he didn't show up and after 2 days he give me a call and said that he is sorry but he can't rent it anymore, because he has no money.
It was unfortunate that my past bitter experience of inviting people to come and view my apartment without any form of confirmation of their financial ability and not keeping up to time as at when scheduled, has brought about great loss to me.
So don't get me wrong and don't take it personally, but now I don't want to buy another plane ticket to come and fall for it once more... maybe you won't show up. I'm sick of tire-kickers, people who are just looking around and not serious about renting, so please, don't waste my time... No offence!
You have a nice profile and you could be the new tenant.. I have a good solution and you will have the keys in hands, in less than 48 hours. I'm the only person who has the keys, but I found a way to complete this rental safe and very fast for both of us!
Best Regards,
Felix & Barbara
This person asks for a deposit payment via Western Union, MoneyGram, pre-paid credit card or bank transfer with a promise that you can have the keys to a property that does not belong to him.
Sounds safe. It's not!
At other times, he will ask for proof that you are able to pay the deposit and rent due to a string of time wasters.
This proof is in the form of a Western Union or MoneyGram payment to a lawyer,a friend or family member.
In either case, if payment is made and you give this person the details, they will collect the money.
You will not hear from them again.
All the details such as names, addresses, pictures etc. that the scammer uses in order to back up his story, are stolen from elsewhere.
If you are reading this because you are looking for property to rent, and you are in contact with this thief you are probably searching Craigslist, Gumtree or similar listing sites. If you receive any requests from 'Landlords' asking for some kind of payment before viewing, then it will also be a scam. Please forward the mail to me at the address in my signature line and I will investigate and list them if necessary.
