Rental Scam - [email protected] / [email protected]

Red flag flew when I saw the two different email accounts. I googled both. One of the email accounts had a facebook account for a girl named Sarah!


From: kevin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 7:01 PM
Subject: $600 Room for rent including utilities (Rocklin) (map)

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Do you still have this room available? do get back to me with more details concerning the room.

Thanks


Kevin


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Second email after my brief response:

From: Kevin Morgan <[email protected]>
To: S**** K*** <k********@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: $600 Room for rent including utilities (Rocklin) (map)

Thanks for getting back to me ... My name Kevin Morgan (M),I am
29yrs old,I am fun loving, personal, friendly,clean, caring,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 .
I am coming for my Masters degree. i am from Spain,specifically
Malaga, I was born in Ormond Beach in Florida,my dad is from there too
but my mum is from Spain...I went to University of Navarra in Spain. I
speak both English and Spanish fluently ,am presently on research work
at Hawaii , am almost done.with that bcos its part of my 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 do really love pets
but i don't have any at the moment. 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 cos I will
have my own car come over, 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 bcos 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.

Kevin.

One of the email accounts had a facebook account for a girl named Sarah

That's not unusual. Scammers soimetimes run more than one type of scam from the same email address. Welcome to Scamwarners.