Room For Rent (Sharon Pears)

I posted an ad on craigslist and received a response almost identical to most of the ones I have found on this site. Since I didn't find this person's name or email on the site I decided to post.

First email was from [email protected]

Good day,

I will like to know if the room is still available for rent.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

Sharon...

After my response for more info, I received an email from [email protected]

Hello,

Thanks for getting back to me. I do appreciate your response and the details(price) of the house,after i went to check the ad again.My name is Sharon Pears,27 years old,fun-loving,outspoken, friendly, clean, caring, and respectful of others, a non-smoker,don't do drugs,drink occasionally,and drama free kind of person. I graduated last year from The university of Manchester, Manchester in UK...I am single and have no children,do bible studies on weekends and sometimes Karaoke nights with my roommates.Being a Christian I've never missed a Sunday without going to Church.I would love to secure the room for myself before my arrival to the state as I'll be moving in with my luggage.You seem to be a very interesting person to be with and I must confess to you that you will enjoy staying with me in the house because I make people smile always.I will be in the States before the end of next Month for the next one year as i am coming for my masters degree program-me. I was born in Manchester. (UK) and my Dad is from Texas (San Antonio) but has been living in Manchester for the past 20 years since my Mom is from Manchester.

I attended The university of Manchester,and I speak both German and English fluently,Am presently on research work in Luxembourg (Belvaux) on (HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM AND HEALTHY PEOPLE).And it is based on ecological services, sustainability, population growth or economics, but to Western’s Ecosystem Health Program, these factors are central to determining health outcomes. am almost done with that because its part of my prerequisite for my masters in Microbiology.I would have loved to call you but this is a remote area and calls is hard to go through from here and I don't want to waste much time .I'm really interested in renting from you and i do really love pets but i don't have any at the moment.

I would have loved to see the place but am very far away which makes it a little harder,but with some recent pictures i think I'll be good.I would love to know more about you and if you have garage or parking space as I will have my own car, pls let me know the total payment of the place and more over i will send your email to my Dad for him to email you later because he is the one that will be paying the bills but nevertheless,I will like you to send me your full Name and mailing address, your phone number as well,so that my Dad will issue out the payment to you from a United State Bank Cashier's Check (NOT OUT OF STATE CHECK). I will need the following information to have my Dad issue out the rental payment to you.

(1) Full name as it will appear on the payment.
(2) Physical Address
(3) phone number

Hope to hear from you soon

Sharon

Since I knew it was a scam, after receiving a similar email from Trina Harris, I didn't respond.

Welcome scadvanced, and thank you for your contribution. It will be valuable for others who do a Google search.

Hi,
I have also been contacted by this 'Trina Harris' via Craig's with almost the same verbage. See below. Googled her name with the word 'scam' and she's all over the place. DO NOT RENT to this person. Here is the verbage she gave me. She's a total scammer. Tayna

Copied from her email:
> Thanks for getting back to me... My name is Trina Harris (F),I am
> 27yrs old,I am fun loving, personal, friendly,clean and respectful of
> others. A non-smoker, don't do drugs, i drink occasionally,and drama
> free. I graduated last year in France. I am single and have no
> children... I do bible study, and sometimes we do karaoke night with
> my roommate! i go to church every Sunday.
> Am coming for my masters degree. I was born in France (Bordeaux), my
> dad is from USA but my mum is from Paris...I went to University of
> Bordeaux in France i speak both French and English ,am presently on
> research work at Guam (USA), am almost done with the research. Am
> doing it because its part of prerequisite for my masters in
> Microbiology. I would have loved to call you but this is a remote area
> calls is hard to go through from here and i don't want to waste much
> time.
> Am really interested in renting from you and i don't really love pets
> but i don't care if there is any in the house. I would have loved to
> see it but am very far,but with pictures,I am glad. I will also like
> you to tell me more about you and if you have garage or parking space
> because I will have my own car come over, please let me know the total
> payment of the place and more over I will send your email to my dad
> for him to email you later because he is the one that will be paying
> the bills but nevertheless,I will like you to send me your full Name
> and the mailing address, your phone number as well,so that my Dad will
> issue out the payment for the place as soon as possible,with that you
> can hold on the place for me till i come. I will be looking forward to
> your email soonest. Thanks and have a nice day.

> Trina.

End of her scam mail.

Welcome to Scamwarners Taynad. can you post his email address please.

Got the exact same thing and thankful for googling her after my first response to find this website. Her first email was [email protected] and reply with all of the info./lies was [email protected]

Welcome to ScamWarners and thank you for posting this additional information. The more we can disrupt the scammers, the better.

I too received an email from this "woman". Fortunately it went directly to my spam inbox... I also received a similar email from somebody else named "Kevin Morgan".

From: sharon pears <[email protected]>
To: Removed information that could lead back to you. ~Bubbles
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:04 PM
Subject: $900 Master Bedroom / Mastersuite, including utilities (Rocklin, CA) (map) Date: 2011-11-09, 11:58AM PST Reply to:

** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

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Good day,

I will like to know if the room is still available for rent.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

Sharon...


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I also ran an ad in Craigslist to rent a room. My email was cleverly tailored to match up with my criteria as noted in the ad itself. This is not the first such email of this type. Have to admit that the English language is improving in each subsequent email, but it is still noticeably detectable that it is a non-English speaking person on the other end. BEWARE.
I have wondered: how much harm could they really do with just your name and address and phone number?

^^^ Your name, address and phone number can most likely be found in the public domain with a little effort.
These scammers are after a quick payment and don't tend to make the effort involved with ID theft.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over that.