by Con Warner
Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:36 pm
From: [email protected]
To: Con Warner
Subject: RE: Request for your Offer at Starflats.co.uk
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:11
Thanks for the sincere interest you have in my flat, I appreciate your sincerity and concern you have over the renting of my flat, because I have some applicant online that are interested in my flat, but they are not trust worthy of their financial ability. So I have to work with care in having a good tenant, I liked the way you expressed your feelings over my flat and I appreciate that. I fully understand your situation and I would love to make you my tenant. Housing benefit is not accepted and will only be accepted if you stand as a middle man. I have experienced so many things in the hands of past tenant, so I would not want to go through such again and they sometimes do not meet up to date as they promise.
It is unfortunate that our past bitter experience of inviting people to come and view our flat or make a reservation without any form of confirmation of their financial ability and not keeping up to time as at when scheduled, it has brought about great loss to us. I have traveled all the way from Ireland to take some interested candidates around our flat because that's where I work with The Bill Moss Partnership Company (Ringsend, Dublin 4, Ireland). Some outside tenants do not have the money to pay the rent and yet they disturb the landlord to arrange a viewing with their friend or relative who are here in Bath, also some do not meet up with the appointments which has led to the dismissal of some landlords in office by their employees.
However, I wouldn't want to collect any money from you as long as you have not sign a contract neither have I take you round my flat. We would not ask you to send your bank statement. At least 1 Month rent and security deposit which is 300GBP or and deposit of 650GBP which is refundable after your first week stay in my flat, would be required from you to transfer through Western Union post office and the only way I can help you is for you. You can make the transfer with your close relation's or friend's name as the receiver and your name as the sender to your destined address in UK.
Once you have done this, you can scan the receipt to us, and if you do not have scanner, you may write out the details on the receipt as we will send it to our lawyer to verify on the online website, after verification, then we proceed for reservation/viewing and if our flat is okay for you when you arrive, then you call your friend or close relation to go and pickup the money back and pay for the rent and also, I will refund back to you the cost of transfer and don't forget all this are to confirm your financial ability and finalizing of the viewing will be done immediately. Kindly let me know your opinion as soonest as you get this message. At this stage that you are interested in my flat.
Hope to hear from you soonest and my greetings to your family.
This person asks for proof that you are able to pay the deposit and rent (for a property that he does not own) due to a string of time wasters.
This proof is in the form of a cash or bank transfer either to him, his lawyer, your friend or a family member.
Sounds safe. It's not!
At other times, this person asks for a deposit payment via Western Union or Moneygram with the promise that they will send the keys through a courier company.
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.
