by Con Warner
Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:51 am
From: [email protected]
To: Con Warner
Subject: 134 Aberdeen St, Northbridge WA 6003, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:11
Hello,
First of all I want to thank you for your reply. I really appreciate you took the time to answer me. I am the owner of the apartment located in 134 Aberdeen St, Northbridge WA 6003, Australia. It is still available for rent for $250 p/w including utilities for as long as you need. The apartment is in the best conditions, it is newly furnished and equipped with all the dependencies. I bought the apartment in 2007 and I lived there with my pet until last month when I received a promotion and needed to move to Milan / Italy.
In the apartment you will find a dishwasher, a refrigerator, a freezer, a washing machine, a dryer, an iron, , an oven, a toaster, a coffee maker, vacuum cleaner, a big screen TV, cable TV with the basic access, ADSL internet and Wi-Fi access. Also the apartment is near the public transportation, a shopping mall, a gym, and other facilities. There are no problems if you have any pets, as long as you clean up after them. The apartment has a parking space for one car. I have spent a great amount of money refurnishing the apartment and my request is that you treat it like it was your own. I am not interested to make a lot of money from the rent as I am interested to find a tenant that will take good care of the property until my return(the minimum lease period is 3 months).
My contract here in Italy expires in October 2014.
Because I had to move to Italy so soon I didn't had the time to find a trustworthy agent, I had to take the apartment keys with me. I had a real bad experience with the renting agents from the area with my previous home. I can't come to show you the apartment and I don't have any friends in the area to send the keys. I have found a way for us to complete the deal fast (2 days) and easy. The solution is a worldwide delivery company called TNT ( http://www.tnt.com/ ), with them you will be able to check the apartment before I receive the payment.
Let me know how this sounds to you.
Looking forward to your answer. I have attached the pics in this email.
Administration Officer
Samara Chapman
25 Via Ludovico Di Breme
20156 Milano
[email protected]
Tel: 02-682-23780
Fax: 02-667-10810
This person asks for a deposit payment via Western Union or MoneyGram with a promise that he will send the keys through a courier company.
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.
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.
I was in the process of contacting this person Samara Chapman, I received the exact same letter, 
it was too good to be true so I goggled her name and to my surprise its a scam, damn! 
I will be sending the warnings out.
These people should be shot its hard enough coping with day to day expenses with out getting ripped off.
