by Con Warner
Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:11 am
[email protected] wrote:
Thanks for your interest in my apartment. The apartment is still available and it is located at: 807 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California 94112. I am presently in Manila, Philippines with my wife (Valerie). We are a quiet, but sociable and adventuresome couple and enjoy having others around, we respect every religion and love to hang around with good people and we are definitely not a trouble maker and very helpful in nature. We will be here for long that is why we are renting out the apartment.
Its a spacious and lovely 2-bedroom fully furnished apartment with utilities included. The kitchen is well equipped. We want you to know that we spent a lot on our property that you are interested in renting, so we will solicit for your absolute maintenance of the apartment and we would want you to treat it as your own.
The rental fees is $450 including utilities and $450 damage deposit which is refundable. I know you will be wondering why the rent is so cheap. Well we are not after the money, what we are after is the welfare of our apartment. I will like you to drive by to the building today to view the exterior of the building for you to get a better view of the building and get back to me so that I can forward you the full interior pictures to you to have an idea how beautiful and spacious the inside looks and we can proceed to the application form.
Kindly get back to me ASAP so that I can forward you the interior pictures and more information about the apartment.
Send your reply to [email protected]
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Joseph
This person asks for a deposit payment via Western Union, MoneyGram or bank transfer with a promise that you can have the keys to a property that does not belong to him.
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.
All the details such as names, addresses, pictures etc. that the scammer uses in order to back up his story, are stolen from elsewhere.
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.
