Room for Rent Scammer - [email protected]

From: mark gilbert < [email protected] >
Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Subject: Good News..Your Have Been Approved As Our New Tenant!!!
To: Michelle


Hello,

Thanks very much for your reply and also i can see your willingness in this rent your application form as being approved and you are now qualify for this rent. So as we shall be renting our properties to you, please again take very good care of the apartment so that i might be glad when coming by middle of next year to see how neat you keep the place. Hope everything about this process is fine with you.However, if you are ready to rent the apartment now, that will not be a problem but we will advice you due to a responsible and reliable person like you, The deposit payment will be made before moving in, and also we would like to send the following document to you via DHL to the address you provided to me in the application form and the tracking number will be sent to you so that you can possible occupy our apartment immediately. Once again, we are giving you this on trust and do not disappoint us and i promise you that you will love the apartment. In my previous mail i let you know that the apartment will be viewed from outside because the keys and document to the apartment are with me here in africa and i don't have anyone local.


Here are the contents of the packages that will be deliver to you via
DHL courier service.
1)Entrance and the rooms Keys
2)Paper/Permanent house form (Containing your reference details)
3)The House documetary file.
4)Payment Receipt


So i am with your informations here with me and i will like to know whether you are ready for the payment of this deposit right now so you can move in asap..Let me know If I could forward you the Information on how and where to send the money through any Western Union Money Transfer location nearest to you so I can get all the package sent to you immediately. If for any more info i can be reach at 0112348084329414 or +2348084329414. Hope to read from you soonest


Thanks and God bless
Regards

The thief will tell you that you can rent his accommodation only if you can prove that you have genuine interest. He will ask you send money by wire transfer (normally Western Union) to yourself or a member of the family to show that you have sufficient finances and that you are not a "time waster".

Another variation of this scam is that you need to send (by Western Union) money in order that the keys and other documents can be couriered to you

He will ask you to send him the transfer details.

Make no mistake ! Western Union Transfers can be picked up virtually anywhere in the world and with the minimum of identification. They are almost impossible to trace once the money has been collected. You will never get to see the accommodation or your money again.

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 Gumtree or similar listing sites. If you receive any requests from 'Landlords' asking for some kind of payment by Western Union 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.

i nearly fell for his scam as pedro he sent us that email too.