Room for Rent Scammer - [email protected]

From: Malleville Adrien [ [email protected] ]
Sent: 12 August 2010 09:17
To: Michelle
Subject: Picture of the apartment and location

Thanks for response updated,you really sound great.... never mind i can reserve the room for you till your arrival date and .I will like to know where you are from and when you will be coming to the flat ? Am confidently assuring you that you will be more than satisfied when you come into the flat while you will have your private bathroom . I attached the picture of the apartment for viewing.

My name is Malleville Adrien 21 years old male, Originally from France , the, the apartment belongs to my late father and my mother have been managing and maintaining the apartment,but she is presently in Belfast due to her work,and i also work in a calling center..Apartment is very close to city center, public transportation and supermarket

The exact address is : 9 Rue saint denis, 86000 Poitiers, France

The lease ll be -€300/per month/per Room including the utilities,fridge-freezer,oven, washing machine, dryer, gas cooker,microwave, dishwasher, electricity bill, Internet charges and others bills.---€600 for the security deposit which is refundable during the departure time from the room. since there is a perfect procedure that we both have to undergo before you can proceed with the payment.

However If you really have interest in renting the room just let me have this request below

-FULL NAME,
-YOUR EXACT ARRIVAL DATE,
-YOUR DEPARTURE DATE,
-YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS
-SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT ID,

So that i can quickly instruct our family lawyer to prepare the tenant agreement form for you to be assure that you are dealing with the right person and to see the terms and condition of the contract and if you are okay with the terms and condition then you can proceed with the one month rent and security deposit to my mother in United Kingdom Via western union money transfer so that the room can be reserve for you till your arrival date because there are a lot of people that also have interest in renting the room,but my mother prefer the most serious person who pay her first.

The signed agreement form will be send to you first through attached mail(with the scanned page of my international passport).for you to read and understand,after which you will proceed with the payment ,i 'll now send you the original copy through a registered courier to your address for you to sign and bring along with you when moving in. I will like to know where you are from and when you will be coming to the flat ? Am confidently assuring you that you will be more than satisfied when you come into the flat while you will have your private bathroom . I attached the picture of the apartment for viewing.

Let me hear from you asap if you really have interest in renting the room,

Best Regards,
Malleville

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.

hey! I'm writing here because, I have received mails from this guy. I didn't pay anything, but I sent to him my ID card before to understand that it could have been a fraud. Now, I have fear that he could use my identity (steal my identity on the Internet) to make others fraud... THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I CAN DO AGAINST THIS? ((((((((((((((((((( I AM SO ANGRY!

AND, I attached here an example of his mail BE CAREFUL:

da Malleville Adrien <[email protected]>
data 18 agosto 2010 18:10
oggetto Data forward and passport for your viewing

Greetings,

Thanks for your response so far. I have forward your information details to our family lawyer, tenant lease agreement will prepare by him but first you ll received the tenant lease agreement from me through attached mail on it for you to read and understand the terms and condition of the lease. You have to read it carefully before you sign the lease . make sure you understand the terms and condition and if you are okay all you have to do is print the last page of the agreement out and sign it and scan it back to me to sign as well after which you proceed with the first month rent deposit to my mother through western union for the secure of the room in other to reserve the room for you till your arrival date.

I attached you a scan copy of my international passport for your viewing to know you re dealing with right person. Once again make sure you read the lease agreement carefully before making the transfer of the deposit to my mother through western union.

Looking to read from you,
Your future tenant,
Malleville

just to specify, I sent to him a digital picture of my ID card, not the real one of course.

Welcome to Scamwarners.com ioeyaoi

Scammers will often ask for a copy of a Passport (or other Photo ID) to make their scam seem more believable - maybe this is what a genuine Landlord would do ?

On the other hand they have been known to open an e-mail address with an address very similar to your own name and continue scamming, pretending to be you - and if they are successful it will be you that the Police come looking for in the first instance.

I would suggest that if the ID card has been issued to you for 'official purposes' that you should contact the Issuer or your local Police and explain the circumstances. - Doing this, there will be a record of the event should there be any issues later.

Guys, me and two other girls did the same mistake.
He sent us a copy of LEASE AGREEMENT, which seemed really professional and serious.
This is the reason why I sent him a copy of our passports.
Do you think we should go to police in order to preserve our identity?

Welcome msvvu87,
It is possible that the scammer will use the copy of your passport in future scams.
So, it is wise to inform your local authorities that you sent this copy and that you didn't realize it was a scam at that moment. In the unlikely event that this comes back to bite you, you have an official record about what happened.

Ok thanks a lot.
Anyway I would like to inform you that the person (or the people) who is frauding using the name : Malleville Adrien is not the real Malleville Adrien.I surfed the web and found out that probably it'a company of scammers, which uses name and passports of frauded people. I found out,infact, that the real Malleville Adrien posted a message on the website "Accomodationforstudents.com"in March because he was looking for a room in Bristol from July till September. I found the message of the "false"Malleville on the same website and when he contacted me, in order to ensure me that I was dealing with a reliable person, he sent me the passport of the "real "Malleville.So people pay attention: don't send your Id to this email "[email protected]" because he/they could use them to fraud other people!