Room for Rent and other rental scams
by amber85 Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:08 pm
Here Rebecca Jones uses 2 email address and I have also included her "husband" aswell.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

The initial email I received was from her "husband":

From: R Williams Jones [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 Sept 2011

Hi,

Thanks for your email and it's my gladness hearing from you, am Reverend Jones i owner the property you are making inquiry of, actually I resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only daughter but presently we had packed due to my transfer from my working place and now situated in Glasgow, Scotland. Presently my house is still available for rent for 650per month including all house utilities like hydro,washer and security,it is fully furnished!

Meanwhile, i went for a Crusade in Africa and i will like you to get in touch with my wife in Glasgow for more details about the house, as she is with the keys and the documents of the house. Please i want you to note know that we're kind and honest family, we spent alot on our propertys,so i will solicit for your absolute maintenance of this house and want you to treat it as your own! Its not about the money but we want you to keep it tidy all the time, so that i will be glad to see it neat when i came for a check up. I also want you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my word.

Email my wife Rebecca on ([email protected] or [email protected] ) and she will attends to you better, pls make sure you send email to both address,

Thanks and you are welcome....
Regards

Been doing correspondence with Rebecca ever since from both email address':

1st email:

From: Rebecca Jones [email protected] / [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 Sept 2011

Hello,

Thanks for your response,my name is Rebecca, my husband owned the Flats you're interested to rent, we are given it out for rent but we are looking for a responsible/trustworthy person that will take very good care of the house properties for us. It was due to my husband transfer that makes us leave the house, as we are not after the money for the rent but we wanted it to be well clean n tidy all the time, and interested person that will rent it will promise us he/she would take care of the house as if it was his/her own!

So, for now i am here in our new house in Glasgow, Scotland with the keys/documents of the house we're renting out... We try to look for a trustworthy agent that we can give the keys/documents before we left but could not see, and we don't want our house to be used any how while we are here, Because our former agent try to sale our flats, at the same time he always rent it out to tenants with different price we told him to rent it out, that is why we took the keys and documents with us the last we time went home! And as you know that my husband's over in Africa for a mission of God, so i hope you will promise us to take very good care of the house for us? Because we've had a bad experience trying to rent this Apartment out to someone as we are currently out of the flat so i want you to know that we are doing everything to protect the same thing being happened again because it cost me alot of stress as we have to send the keys out to the tenant and we didn't hear from them anymore not knowing that they've already living in the house until the bills notification came to my email and it was higher than usual and our property was also stolen!

So, get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting house....Hope you are okay with the price of 650 monthly with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air condition,high speed internet and so on.

I look forward to hearing from you asap, so that i can forward you a application form to fill out and discuss on how to get the house keys and documents to you via DHL, also are you ready to rent it now or when? Tell me about you and what you do for living and where?

Thanks And God Bless You

Await your reply,
Rebecca

2nd email:

From: Rebecca Jones [email protected] / [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 22 Sept 2011

Please be advised that this application will only be processed once ALL details have been completed. The Applicant agrees to pay an upfront payment, to get the Keys & Documents. Application is hereby made to rent premises generally described It is also understood that if this application is not accepted.


Address of Property:

25-33 Wills Street,
Melbourne, Vic 3000


Date: __________



Section 1:
This section must be filled in. It is important to give good contact details.

APPLICANT

Your Full Name: ________________________

Present Address: __________ How Long? __________

Previous Address: [cross out if not needed] __________ How Long? [cross out if not needed] __________

Phone Number & Mobile Number: __________

Your Age: _____

Own a Car: __________

Driver's Lisc. #: [cross out if not needed] _______________________

Citizen of Which Country?

Your Religion: __________

When do you want to Move In? __________

Single or Married? __________

Spouse's Name: __________

Children? [cross out if not needed] __________ How Many? [cross out if not needed] __________ Ages? [cross out if not needed] _________

Pets? __________ What Kind? __________ How Many? __________

How many months rent can you pay upfront? Minimum (1month + bond deposit) or ( 2 months + bond deposit, and you get 1month free). Let us know wich option do you prefer???? __________



Section 2:
This section must be filled in. It is important to give good contact details.

YOUR EMPLOYMENT:

Employer: __________

Employer Address: [cross out if not needed] __________

Bus. Phone: [cross out if not needed] __________

How Long on Present Job? [cross out if not needed] __________


Section 3:

SPOUSE'S EMPLOYMENT

Employer: __________

Employer Address: [cross out if not needed] __________

Bus. Phone: [cross out if not needed] __________

How Long on Present Job? [cross out if not needed] __________



A rental bond of $ _600_must be paid by the tenant to the Owner,and it is Refundable.The Owner agrees to provide a receipt for any rent paid by the Tenant.

Its fully furnished and there is enough parking space and storage, 2bedrooms plus extra guess room, 2bathrooms and 2toilet all the necessary utilities in the house are included. It all depends on you, you can rent it as you wish, month to month is good, year lease if you like. The utilities/bills are included in the monthly rent....Close to Shops, Close to Transport and it is a Quiet Location, we just renovate it last month everything is new. TV, cable and internet EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE & Working Properly.

The information provided herein may be used by the Owner to Determine whether to accept this application. I acknowledge that this application is subject to the approval of the owner. I declare that all information contained in this application is true and Correct and given of my own free will. I have read, agreed to and understood all of the above terms and conditions that are relevant to me.

Do not fill this Application unless you understand and agree with everything in it, questions can be ask.

Rev/Mrs Jones.

3rd email:

From: Rebecca Jones [email protected] / [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 22 Sept 2011

Hi,

I got your filled rental form. I've forward your rental application to my husband in Africa, i will get back to you if you'll be accepted or not! If accepted the keys and documents would be send to you via dhl on next day delivery. I am pretty sure you have the flats address, you can go and have a look at the building but you'll not be able to enter or view inside because its locked at the moment, and i have the keys and documents here with me.
Here are the contents that will be delivered to you via DHL courier service.

1) Entrance and the rooms Keys.
2)Paper/Permanent Flat form (Containing your reference details).
3)The Flat documented file.
4)Payment Receipt.
5)Full address and description of the house.

Note all flats utilities are working properly water,high speed internet,washer,dryer, electricity and so on are intact, its a flat you'll really enjoy, you will never regret of renting from us!

Thanks,
Rebecca

4th email:

From: Rebecca Jones [email protected] / [email protected]
Sent: Friday, 23 Sept 2011

Hello,

Thanks for your interest, we can see your willingness in our house...I want you to know that we're satisfied with your profile and also believe we can trust in you, because we will not like to experience what we experienced from our last tenant again! I will like to know the exact Date you will like to move into the flat, i showed your profile to my husband and daughter in Africa, they said they are pretty OK with it,he asked me to send you these. I want you to know that we can let you stay in my house till the period of time you wish to move out!

I want you to know that the rent fee is among the flats utilities all included, so you can use them anytime. but make you take proper care of our properties. We will come and pay you a visit after you have moved into our home to see how you are maintaining it. I will be receiving the first 2months plus deposit payment of 600 from you via Western Union, i think its reliable,secured and fast, i wish you best of luck in your work/studies. From your profile i can see that you are responsible and a hard working person may the almighty Lord lead you in what ever you wish to do, since you have promised that you will take proper care of our home, i think we're ok.


Amenities
.............................. .............
# Bedroom : 2
# Bathroom : 2
# Extra Toilet : 1
# Extra Guest Room: 1
# Sofa Bed : 1
# Bed Linen

Accommodation Features
.............................. .. ........
Wood Floor :
Heater :
Central Heating :
Equipped Kitchen :
Tv: Cable/Satellite TV:
Video/Stereo:
Internet :
Air Conditioning:
• Full Kitchen
• Refrigerator:
• Garage/Car park
• pets allowed.


Kitchen Features
....................... ...........
Washing machine:
Juice Machine :
Iron :
Toaster:
Oven :
Dishwasher :
Coffee Maker :
Microwave :
Refrigerator:
Stove:

As soon as the first 2months plus deposit payment has been confirmed by me via Western union, i will go ahead and commence on how the flat keys/Documents will be delivered to you via DHL on next day delivery and it will be delivered to the address you provided. Let me hear back from you as soon as possible, so that i can go arrange for the delivery of the keys/Documents.

Once again we are giving you this house on trust and do not disappoint us, because i don't want our house to be destroyed again, if you wish to move in with your own properties,we still have one extra room that is empty so you can easily put our own things that you think you don't need in there.

Here are the contents that will be delivered to you via DHL courier service.

1) Entrance and the rooms Keys
2)Paper/Permanent Flat form(Containing your reference details)
3)The Flat documented file.
4)Payment Receipt.
5)Full address and description of the house.

My husband will like to talk to you, you can call him as soon as you get this mail his number is +27731895806

You can reach me on 004471602703 between 8am-1159am daily.

Get back to me via email if you will need me to send you the information which you will use to make the deposit payment via Western union to me here.

Thanks and God bless you...See attached below:

Best Regards,
Rebecca

Couldn't get a location for all email address from their IP address and they did try to call me but I'm not stupid enough to give them my real number! :lol:
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by Warnme Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:39 am
The EXACT same scam is going for 124 Mounts Bay Road in Perth. We realised it was all way to good to be true and decided to google them. Lucky for us yo had posted this warning. I just can not believe how dumb some people are and that they would run the same scam at the same time thinking they would get at least $1,250. It's quite sad how low someone can go!
by Bubbles Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:34 pm
Welcome to ScamWarners Warnme. It is great that you discovered you were dealing with a scammer. If the scammer you came across is using a different email address than the one posted by Anita, please post the new email address.

Scammers are like any other hunter predator. They put out as many chances for success as they can. Sadly enough people fall for the scams that the scamming continues. We seek to slow the flow down by education, warning and supporting. Thank you for being part of the mission.

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

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