thank you for putting this out here, I got really excited about nothing, even if I won’t live in SE.

WOW those bastards are everywhere now, huh?

I found this exact same scam in Craigslist in Charleston, SC

Shit, I found similar one in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It sounded so freaking nice. Too good to be true, so I had to do some research. And here we go. Thanks, man for posting this. Hope it will help other ones to realize the scam before they send there money to them.

Same scam…….in Kitchener, ON
I can’t believe these people!!!

Same in Huntsville, AL…One reads almost identical, but another that I received today reads similar, but a different twist…
“Hello,

Thanks for the email and it is my gladness to hearing from you.I am
Rev Charles Chris,the owner of the house you are making inquiry
of.Actually I resided in the house with my family,since my Wife
died,am with my only daughter before and presently we had packed due
to my transfer from my Church and now situated in Missouri Usa.And
presently my house is still available for rent in,for ($700) including
the utilities like hydro,washer and security,WIFI, washing machine,
and central or electric heating, The house includes utilities heat,
hydro, cable, fridge, stove, it cooks with dishwasher, hall, dining
room, bath, cleanliness, elevator, conditioned air, TV, DVD, terrace,
located in a well communicated very exclusive zone and with downtown.
lovely furnished Hrdwd, Jacuzzi, loft, kitchen in beautiful Victorian
house. 3 rooms Include: 3 Queen Bed,2 bathrooms, We accept pets like
cat and Dogs.it is furnished. Price in Per/month and it is very much
available , with parking space for 3 cars. All room wired for
internet/cable and telephone .I want you to get back to for more
information as the keys and the document to the house.Pls i want you
to note that, i am a kind and honest man and also i spent alot on my
property that i want to give you for rent,so i will solicit for your
absolute maintenance of this house and want you to treat it as your
own,is that taken,it is not the money the main problem but 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 do that once in a while.I also want you to let
me have trust in you as i always stand on my word and my ph number is
240-949-2932.

House Address:

6500 Walden Run Circle
Huntsville, AL 35806

Square meters: 100 m²
Nº Bedrooms: 3
Nº Bathroom: 1

Other Details
Bedrooms
·Single Bed·Wardrobe·Sheets & Blankets·Double Bed
The Livingroom
·Video·Sofa·Furnished·DVD·Iron·TV
The Kitchen
·Gas Hob·Furnished·Microwave·Electric Hob·Fridge·Washing Machine·Plates
& cutlery·Oven
General Description
·Terrace·Furnished·Gas Heating·Air Conditioning

RENT APPLICATION FORM
Also,Pls let me get this answer.
1)Your Full Name
2)Your Full Address & Phone Number
4)Are you married?
5)How many people will be living in the house?
6)Do you have a pet?
7)Do you have a car?
8)Occupation?

Pls i want you to note that,i am a kind and honest person and also i
spent alot on my property that i want to give you for rent,so i will
solicit for your absolute maintenance of this flat and want you to
treat it as if it is your own, money is not the main problem but i
want you to keep it tidy all the time so that i will be glad to see it
neat when i come for a check up.i do that once in a while.I also want
you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my word. I will
also like to know how many months you will want to rent and you can
call me on my line 240-949-2932.

I await your response, so that we can proceed from there and if you
are interested let me know so i can give you a phone number to reach
me on.

Thanks And God Bless……….

Regards.

Same on Long Island NY. Like an idiot, I emailed this guy twice from my work email address so he has my full name. Can they do anything with that? Thank God I found these posts. You know what they say, if it sounds too good to be true………….I hope someday they get theirs.

Same thing in Portland, OR

I THINK THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE WHEN I WAS THERE AND TRYING TO FIND A LIVING, BECAUSE IT HARD OVER HERE.

jonh vic, I think I speak for everyone who reads this blog when I say, “What?”

Same scam running rampant on Craiglist in Calgary, AB. Numerous listings. Does anyone know if there are any extradition agreements with Nigeria for capital fraud? I decided to play around with one of the scammers that I e-mailed, including listing William “Billy” Corgan as my work supervisor, Shannon Hoon as my reference, and my home phone number as: 8-6-7-5-3-o-9(ee-eye-n).

The dumbass actually wrote me back with Western Union transfer information. By the way, if you’re ever in Yaba, Nigeria, be sure to visit “Christian Leonard” at 201-209 Wayne Avenue.

I got the same reply for a listing in Portland, OR. The thing is, they gave a real address and had pictures of a real home. I wonder if the home owners know they are being used in this scam

The same also goes for people who are renting rooms. I have two rooms in my apartment I am renting and I get lots of people saying they are from Canada, Germany, France, UK or even Russia and they want to live with me really bad. They just need my full name, address and telephone number to get me the money order or cashiers check and they will pay in advance.

Most likely I would get something that wouldn’t clear and they would tell me they can’t make it or that they need the money back quickly with some sob story, so I am supposed to feel sorry for them and send it back before the fake money clears (or doesn’t).

The kicker is my ad is VERY descript and they usually tell me to send them details that are printed multiple times in my ad including pictures.

Beware of people responding to your ads, not just the ads that are posted.

We just received an e-mail from the same couple on their missionary trip to West Africa, Nigeria. The only difference with this one is that they are trying to get soneone to adopt their poor Yorkshire puppy whom they bought in the states and took with them, but have since found out the African weather is not good for the puppy and want someone to send $250.00 for shipping the dog back to the states. My elderly parents almost fell for this, but I told them I thought it might be a scam and that they needed to check into it. I’m glad I found this article about what sounds like the same couple trying to scam people any way they think they can. I hope that many others will be warned by this website and these two blogs that have been posted, as well as searching out these kinds of e-mail they receive before falling for them. Thank you Meredith for your posting your experience and thank you to all the others who have contributed to revealing these scammers. They will get theirs someday. I just pray that it is before too much damage has been done.

They are not, alas, a rare breed.

But at our blog, we’re always willing to post information that people pass on to us.

Be careful out there!

Ugh, I just got an email about an apartment I found for my best friend who is moving from Chicago to Santa Barbara. Apartments are crazy expensive and I found a furnished one for $700 with pictures and all. I should have known better when the email said that the author (a Scottish woman) had fallen in love with an African and his music producer job transferred him to “Victoria Garden city, Lagos Nigeria”. I stupidly gave out my cell phone number — are they smart enough to do anything with that?

The sad things is, they are probably the same people who tried to scam me out of an LCD projector I had for sale on ebay last year!

This is good, because when my brother trying to fin a living he have a many trabls!

Gee, thanks for the heads up! I nearly almost fell for it. Your postings really alerted me. I would also like to do the same, so that these criminals will not get away with it.

here is what i got and almost fell for in hawaii.

Hello,

Thanks for your response regarding your interest in having my property for rent.The home is much available for now.I want you to know that I am the owner of this building situated at 95-1023 Kaapeha St. #50 Mililani, HI, HI.But i am now presently in West Africa for my Hopitals Project prayer crusade with my wife and we have the keys right here with us.I will like to inform you that it was due to my transfer that makes us to leave the home and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a resposible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.So for now,We are here in West Africa,NIGERIA our new house and also with the keys of the home,we are trying to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as dont want our home to be used any how in our absent that is why we took it along with us here.We are only willing to give the home out to a lovely and caring family only, so if you know you cannot give the house the neatness it deserves please don’t contact me.But if you promise to always take good care of the house,get back to me on how you could take care of our home or perhaps experience you have in renting home.Hope you are okay with the price of $1100 and the security deposit is $500 so on.i look forward to hearing from you ASAP so that i can forward you an application to fill out and discuss on how to get the property for rent,also are you ready to rent it now or when?pet is allow and you can drive by the home.also they is a pool in the home. Await your reply

Call me on +2348024243988.

I almost fell for it to. The woman at western union warned me! Red Deer, Alberta Canada. It was a man who was apparently doing research in nigeria. If it sounds to good to be true it probably is!

Funny! I received this email: Hello Dear,

Thanks for the email. I own the house and also want you to know that it was due to my transfer to (West Africa, Nigeria) that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person and God fearing person who can take very good care of the house in our absence.we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean all the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own. So for now, We are here in West Africa and will be staying here for the next 4 years in our new house and also with the keys of the House for rent, we try to look for an agent that we can give this documents and the keys before we left but could not find, and we as well do not want our house to be used any how in our absence that is why we took it along with us. I and my wife came over to Africa for a missionary work, so i hope you will promise us that you will take very good care of the house. So get back to me if you know you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of $1000 per month and the security Deposit is $500.Get back to me for the rental application.You can go and view.
Here is my contact number:+2347058014164 or 0112347058014164.

LOL!

i got the same exact reply… this time its in Bellevue, Washington… $1000/ 4br… gotta check it through when its too good to be true…

Same thing in West Linn, Oregon!!!!!

Hello,

Thanks for your response regarding your interest in having my house for rent.The house is much available for now and it a 4 bedroom home.I want you to know that i am the owner of this building situated at 1808 Hall Ct.West Linn, OR.But i am now presently in West Africa for my Hopitals Project prayer crusade with my wife and we have the keys right here with us.I will like to inform you that it was due to my transfer that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.So for now,We are here in West Africa,NIGERIA our new house and also with the keys of the house,we are trying to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as don’t want our house to be used any how in our absent that is why we took it along with us here.We are only willing to give the house out to a lovely and caring family only, so if you know you cannot give the house the neatness it deserves please don’t contact me.But if you promise to always take good care of the house,get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting a home.Hope you are okay with the monthly price of $1100 with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air-condition Etc.I am looking forward to hear from you ASAP, below is the application form for you to fill and discuss on how to get the house for rent.

Kindly confirm your interest by filling the form below:
TENANT RENT APPLICATION
FIRST NAME: __________________
MIDDLE NAME: __________________
LAST NAME: __________________
PROFESSION: ________________
PHONE (____) __________ (CELL)
PHONE (____) __________ (WORK)
PHONE (____) __________ (HOME)
MARITAL STATUS: _________
KIDS _____ (YES/NO), HOW MANY ________
Home ADDRESS: ___________________________
CITY: _______________
STATE: ______________
ZIPCODE: ____________
HOW LONG? ___________IF RENTING
WHY ARE YOU LEAVING? _______________________________________________________________________
CURRENT RENT: _______

IF THIS House IS BEING GIVEN TO YOU,
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING? ____________
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN? ______________

When you want to buy or rent a house sometimes its better to deal with real estate agents or companies. They maybe a bit pricey compare to renting one directly with owner but at least you can make sure you are not being scam.

Same thing happens in San Francisco, CA, Berkeley. but this time they lied in the name of their “sick” daughter and son, and lied in the name of God.

Oh my goodness….sorry for the late response. I was so busy at the hospital with
my daughter, she went through a kidney operation but thank God she is doing fine
now.We are glad to receive your message regarding our home for rent, We want you to
know that we have receive a lot of enquiries about our home but the reason why we
are not in hurry to give it out for rent is because we have gone through stress and
dishonest by our former tenant.

The home is suitable to anyone with good character. I was transfer to west africa
region on a work transfer. Myself and my husband are both professional medical
Doctors and we do travel to difficult countries to render help and service to
difficult individual and private associate. Presently now we are here in africa
region and we have been given an accomodation here that is why we are giving out our
home for rent which we are carefully looking for the best candidate that fit in. The
rent fee includes water,heat,gas,washer,dryer, electricity and so on. There is no
extra charges. We are not coming back to live in our home again, we will just come
to see how you are taking care of our home for us.

PS: I want you to know that the rent fee or the deposit is not the issue to us,
the most important issue is for you to live to your responsibilities and take good
care of our home just like yours. We have gone through a lot of difficulties with
our former tenant whose name is Aaron Jackson, he was an irresponsible tenant to us,
We did not know that he was a drunk adict and comes home late in the night and
damage most of our furnitures that is why we sent him packing from our home so that
he does not sell our property at our absent due to our nature of work that is why we
are not in hurry giving out our home out to anyone because of the bad experience we
already went through.

Due to what happened to us we took the key and documents along with us here because
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE We are looking for a decent tenant and most important
someone with a good heart and attitude.

Let me read from you if you know that you wouldn’t be the same like my former tenant
soon so that i can e-mal you the rent application.

Best Regard
Ericka

after i sent a email to her/him. he or she replied:
Congratulation to you Xiaomeng( Megan ) Lu,

I have been trying to you but is not going through, i want you to try calling me
too.We quite understand your email and have seen your willingness to rent our
home.It is very important you know that we are putting our trust in you and we don’t
want you to disapoint us.As good christians, we want you to know that we have
decided to rent our home to you on trust due to the kind of responsible persons you
are.Please do not let us down with our property.Also there is a washer and a
dryer. You know that is not easy to trust people this days but we are trusting you
due to the fact that we are christians.One thing i know is that in the world
today.There is bad,good and the ugly.Amongs bad people there are still good ones
that can be trusted so we decided not ot look that than to trust you.We are
indeed good christians.So we want to trust you.I know that God will surely see us
through.I have attached my family picture and also the
interior picture of the home to this message for your viewing.

I have contacted the agent for shipping of the documents to you and we want you to
know that we are going to send the documents to you along with the home keys based
on trust.As good christians,we are honest with you from the begining and we want you
to be honest with us because we are giving you all our trust and we believe that
you will not disapoint us.I want you to re-confirm your delivery information
again…Xiaomeng( Megan ) Lu and address: 2310 Bowditch St Berkeley CA 94704 .And
below is the picture of the keys and some of the correspondence that we will be
sending to you first thing tomorrow morning or latest today.

You are going to send the security deposit payment $700 to me in Africa, and below
is the information of my personnel secretary working with me you need in making the
payment through Western Union transfer Nearest you.

Payment Information:

Receiver’s Name:CHRISTIAN BOSSA
Address:100 Angelica Ave #5
City:Lekki
State:Lagos
Country:NIGERIA
Text Question: You are
Answer: Welcome
Amount:$700

As soon as you send the payment from the Western Union transfer, you would be given
some informations. You would have to get back to me with following information:

1. Full Sender’s Name :
2. Confirmation NUMBER:
3. Amount Sent: $700

1)Entrance and the rooms Keys
2)Paper/Permanent home form(Containing your reference details)
3)The home documetary file.
4)Payment Receipt.
5)other informations reqired.

One important thing we wish to inform you;is that the money is not our problem what
we are after is proper care of the home,So we will solicit for your absolute
mentenance of our home.we want you to treat it as yours when you move in,if possible
we want you to be sending the pictures of the home to us every three (3) months as
update for the upkeeping of the home,hope this is very clear to you?is not all about
the money but i want you to keep it tidy all the time so that we will be glad to see
it neat and clean when ever we visit the country.You can stay in the home as long as
you wish because we already own another home here in west africa.We are good
christians,we don’t like disapointing people and we don’t want anyone to disapoint
us too.We believe you can understand us when we say this?I will get back to you with
the Tracking number and the arrival time of the documents and the home keys as soon
as you have make the payment.

May God bless you and your works.

Thanks.
Ericka

these scumbags are all over the places. BE AWARE!!!

I just received my reply back from these crazy people today. I jumped on the offer because we are a family of six looking to move into a larger place. Why not a 4 bedroom 3 bathroom for 1200 a month? Because it’s a SCAM! My very good friend did some checking for me and called me right away. I was so disappointed. Is it really legal for these people to do this? I gave him my address and phone numbers and general information. Now I’m worried about further contact with him. One of the other posts is the same exact e mail I received. I can’t believe that it’s ok to solicit people like this.

Just got the same reply for a home in the Twin Cities of MN. Should have known it was way too good to be true

I would alway use an agent, craigslist has its uses but obviously in this case not. Shame is that while a lot of people will see this post, for every one of those there are hundreds being scammed.

elle.

Just had the same answer in on Seattle Craigslist in Olympia, WA. Here’s what I got after I responded. I immediately was suspect because most things that start with “i am in another country” are usually scams. oh well I guess it was too good to be true.
-al jay

Hello,

Thanks for your response regarding your interest in having my house for rent.The house is much available for now and it a 3 bedroom home.I want you to know that i am the owner of this building situated at 1924 Craig Rd. SE, Olympia, Wa 98501.But i am now presently in West Africa for my Hopitals Project prayer crusade with my wife and we have the keys right here with us.I will like to inform you that it was due to my transfer that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.So for now,We are here in West Africa,NIGERIA our new house and also with the keys of the house,we are trying to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as don’t want our house to be used any how in our absent that is why we took it along with us here.We are only willing to give the house out to a lovely and caring family only, so if you know you cannot give the house the neatness it deserves please don’t contact me.But if you promise to always take good care of the house,get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting a home.Hope you are okay with the monthly price of $800 with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air-condition Etc.I am looking forward to hear from you ASAP, below is the application form for you to fill and discuss on how to get the house for rent.

Kindly confirm your interest by filling the form below:
TENANT RENT APPLICATION
FIRST NAME: __________________
MIDDLE NAME: __________________
LAST NAME: __________________
PROFESSION: ________________
PHONE (____) __________ (CELL)
PHONE (____) __________ (WORK)
PHONE (____) __________ (HOME)
MARITAL STATUS: _________
KIDS _____ (YES/NO), HOW MANY ________
Home ADDRESS: ___________________________
CITY: _______________
STATE: ______________
ZIPCODE: ____________
HOW LONG? ___________IF RENTING
WHY ARE YOU LEAVING? _______________________________________________________________________
CURRENT RENT: _______
IF THIS House IS BEING GIVEN TO YOU,
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING? ____________
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN? ______________

I have seen this scam all over the place in the past couple months. I guess now that people are having trouble with their homes and looking for cheaper living this is a good time for the scammers to take advantage of that. The pet one is new to me though!
I’m glad you’ve pointed out this scam, even though I’ve already seen it, I think the more people talk about it the better. I’m sure some people fall for it and it’s very unfortunate so the more information there is on stuff like this, the better.

Ah, another clever yet not-so-clever Nigerian scam. It really bothers me that to many of us it’s fairly obvious that these things are a scam and we notice the little fishy nuances that give it away, while many other people who are maybe less experienced or just not as savvy are falling for the tricks. I assume that if these scams keep coming that means enough people are falling for it. And the scammers are getting more and more clever. Thanks for spreading the word.

I spent some time in Ghana and I don’t know how they manage to pull this stuff off in West Africa, in such a large scale anyway. The internet access is so incredibly slow there.

They’re not very good at this though, I wonder how many people actually fall for these things?

Just popped on the Raleigh / Durham, NC Craigslist. Damn, I really wanted that apartment!

That’s funny! I get many emails of some variations of the Nigerian scams. These folks are really getting creative. Here in the Canada, they’ve also penetrated forums where a lot of applicants for Canadian immigration hang out. I’ve encountered one in the forum and I tell you they are quite persistent.

I am talking to a guy right now who says he has an apartment for rent in Ottawa. It is on Kijiji. The guy is not for real. It’s a scam. The email he sent me matched the one in the post almost exactly. He used another name, different but very low price, etc.

This is a message to anyone who is looking on kijiji Ottawa, that the 1 bedroom apartment for $475 is a scam. He claimed he had a job in xray welding in Africa for 2 years and wanted someone to take care of the apartment for him.

Found a post yesterday on Craigslist Inland Empire CA , the post gave the home address and persons email. Recieved the same reply as far as application after submitting an inquiry on why a 4bd home would rent for $1,000 in CA . Since then the post on Craigslist is gone the home address listed actually for a vacant home that is soon to be sold in the area.

Suspected a scam, but wanted to see the reply:

Hello,

Thanks for the email. I own the house and also want you to know that it was due to my transfer to West Africa (Nigeria), that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean all the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own. So for now we are here in Lagos, Nigeria and will be staying here for the next 4 years in our new house and also with the keys of the house for rent, we try to look for an agent that we can give this documents and the keys before we left but could not find, and we as well do not want our house to be used any how in our absence that is why we took it along with us. I and my wife came over to Africa for a missionary work, so i hope you will promise us that you will take very good care of the house. So get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of $1000 per month.

You could give me a call on +234-703-447-9995 OR 011-234-703-447-9995.

This is the address of the house: 5516 Claudied Way, Elk Grove, CA.

SO IF YOU ARE REALLY INTERESTED I WILL WANT YOU TO FILL THE
RENT APPLICATION FORM BELOW.

RENT APPLICATION FORM.
Pls let me get this answers.
1)Your Full Name
2)Your Full Address
3)Your Phone Number
4)How old are you?
5)Are you married?
6)How many people will be living in the house?
7)Do you have a car?
8)Occupation?
9)When do you intend moving in?
10)How long will you like to rent the property?

Looking forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file incase of issuing the receipt for you and contacting you.Await your urgent reply so that we can discuss on how to get the document and the key to you,please we are giving you all this base on trust and again i will want you to stick to your words,you know that we do not see yet and only putting everything into Gods hand,so please do not let us down in this our property and God bless you more as you do this.

Thanks and Remain Blessed.
Regards.

These same people are all over craigslist in the Sacramento, CA area as well. The response to my email inquiry is almost identical but they have left out the part about asking what religion as I’m sure this was a deterrent. Thanks for putting this out there, as it just confirmed my suspicion about the ads.

There’s an add on kijiji for a basement apartment for $500. Its basically the exact same as what the first story was about. He is claiming that he’s going to Africa and he works for goldengates construction. He also acts like a religious fanatic. It sounded a bit to good to be true, so i googled kijiji scams, and i guess this guy is has a bunch of different adds that are all a scam…I’m so happy because now i know for sure its a scam.

This was the reply that I got back after filling out the little application…I’m sooo glad that I searched this out…A bit upset because it would’ve been a good deal….But what’s a good deal these days without a scam?

We have decided to let you live in our house. As we have found your application very satisfactry and acceptable by my family. so we would want you to go through with you moving into my house and get back to us on what you feel. Our house number is +234-806-037-9400 OR 011-234-806-037-9400.
We would like to send the following document to you via FEDEX COURIER SERVICE WORLDWIDE to the address you sent to us and the tracking number will be sent to you so that you can possibly occupy our house, Please once again, we are giving you this on trust and do not dissapoint us and i promise you that, you will love the house. So we are with the below document here with us. you will need to provide to us with your secure payment to proceed forward because this house won’t last long, if you don’t act fast..
Here are the contents of the document.
1) Entrance and the rooms Keys
2)Paper/Permanent house form
3)The house documetary file.

So please do get back to me today so that I will let know the next step to take concerning the shipment of the keys and document and the payment of the house… I await your reply ASAP. Regard and God bless you!!! You can call us on how to make payment for the shippment of the Keys and Document to the House. Our house number is +234-806-037-9400 OR 011-234-806-037-9400. or you can indicate if you want me to instruct you on how to make the payment. Get back to me asap.

You are going to send the Deposit payment of $1000, so that we can secured the house for you,and below is the information to send the payment through Westernunion Outlet.

Below is the payment information.
Reciever’s Name: Marcus L Meadows
Address : 92 ST VICTORIA ISLANDRD,
CITY: LAGOS ,
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
ZIP CODE:23401
TEXT QUESTION : WHO MADE YOU?
ANSWER : GOD.

As soon as you send the payment from the Western Union Money Transfer Outlet, you would be given some informations. You would have to get back to me with following informations:

1. Full Sender’s Name And Address Including Zip Code:
2. MTCN #:
3. Amount Sent:

As soon as the payment been comfirmed..

one more thing, can someone get back to me about if they were contacted after they gave out their info? They called me…

I’m from a litlle city in Spain. This message has arribed here with the same history about a reverent Soo Gold and his transfer to another church in London. It’ is very nice to be true. I hate him

OMG….I just found the same ad on Craigslist here in Denver, Colorado! He was renting out a 4br/3ba house for only a $1000 a month, in that area something like that goes for more like $1400 a month. Sounded too good to be true, but I thought maybe. I decided to Google the phone number and I came across your page here, thank you so much for posting this! I was so excited thinking I had stumbled along something amazing, but I am glad I found out before I gave any information! I hate people like this! Karma Karma!

My Fiance and I got this exact same email from a washington listing on craigslist……

Seen a lot of this lately. Cynical people taking advantage of other people looking for cheaper living.

Makes my sick to my stomach.

Yeah I replied to this add thinking it was a typo and wanting to know how much the asking price really was. They replied with a letter almost exact to the one above. One big mistake they put an address on the add and we google mapped it, no suprise it was an empty lot. Not even a shack. If you are going to make a mistake that would be the dumbest!!!

Here is the add:

$1000 / 5br – LUXURY FURNISHED EXECUTIVE for rent (Circle Apopka , FL)

For Rent: Executive Ranch Home, Fully Furnished 4 acre Estate Home, 5 Bedroom, 4 bath Walk in closets, built in 2003 Custom built by Owner. Elegantly Furnished with warm colors throughout 3 Car garage, Stable for 3 horses, tack room and storage for tools, etc. Putting Green on back of property. Housekeeping included every two weeks on Fridays.Available May 1View the webpage for a virtual tour and details. http://www.myequestrianproperty.comState park within 1 mile with swimming, kayaking, etc. Bicycle trail access at entrance of development.

132 Kentucky Blue 32712

I just got a reply from this guy too!

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in my 2 bedrooms apartment, I will like to let you know that the apartment is still very much available and its just $800 . Actually Am a Construction Engineer, so i moved to west Africa to execute a contract. The keys and other documents are here with me and i will be mailing them to you via courier services.

Pls i want you to note that i am a kind and honest man and also i spent alot on my property that i want to give you for rent,so i will solicit for your absolute mentenance of this apartment and want you to treat it as your own,is that taken?it is not the money that is the main problem but i want you to keep it tidy all the time so that i will be glad to see it neat whenever i come for a check up.i do that once in a while.I also want you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my word.

The apartment is not a shared apartment, its all for you and your family and the apartment
address is as follows: 1155 Goodfellow Road, Peterborough Ontario, K9J 7X1 Canada. So i will like you to go and drive by to see the area and surroundings and get back to me for the interior pictures for you to have an idear of how it looks like.

Appliances: Dishwasher, Electric, Stove, Fridge,Garburator, Microwave,Washer/Dryer

Included In Rent: Cable, Television, Electricity, Heat,High speed internet access

Tenant Criteria: Female,Male,Smoking Negotiable,Professional,Small Pets Allowed

TERM OF PAYMENT
First and last month rent most be paid through western union money transfer by the
tenants.And the rental period is for a long time,it depends on the time you want to stay in the apartment

Get back to me as soon as possible so that i can start making arrangement on how keys and documents will get to you soon.

Thank You Very much and have a wonderful day.

Regards

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I sent him my home address to send the keys and documents to imply that there is no way I will make a payment before I see the place. AFTER I did that, I started looking up scams and realized, that probably was not the best idea to even send my home address…

Wow! I can’t believe how many scams that are out there! What’s scary is I know people who I have to explain WHY things like this are obviously scams. They don’t see anything wrong with wiring money to some random person online! It’s crazy.

I am so glad I found this forum. I am trying to move to LA and almost fell for an apartment scam from some Nigerian filth. Some alarm bells went off with their emails and demands and finally I did some research and figured it out before it was too late.

I’m so angry at myself for believing that I’d found a great apartment, but I guess I should have learned by know that if something is too good to be true, it’s most probably bull$*#@!!

These frehttp://journal.amanita.net/wp-content/themes/gossipcity/images/ButtonTransparent.pngaking Nigerians are ALWAYS emailing my store, I literally get 10-15 emails from these guys today. I can’t believe anyone would ever fall for one of these emails. Does it REALLY HAPPEN!

What an awesome site.I’m from Edmonton,an I put an ad on kijiji about my video camera and I got a reply from a guy wanting to buy his adopted son who is in Nigeria at a missionary school my video camera for his birthday.but first thing that seemed fishy was the fact it was 400obo and he offered me 850 hahahahaha obo doesn’t usually mean over double amount asked. LOL so I started checking it out and reading all of these scams and a few things always the same:
Always ends in god bless or regards
They use the missionary thing lots
And almost all of them have email address that is the persons “first&last name” followed by a couple numbers
Maybe it’s not as suspicious as it seems but it was to me specially the Lagos Nigeria thing LOL
Either way this person continues emailing me asking about my paypal account so I figures I’d pretend to be a nice guy and tell him I’m not worried about the money just to give me his address and I’ll see it to his son for free and he hasn’t got back to me now LOL thanks for all the info on these scams tho hope this will help bring more scammers out of shadows and protect more innocent ppl

This ones name is “smith Evans”

thanks for sharing this. Whenever I see these things I think about the few people who fall for this and it makes me really sad for them

Same one happening in Vancouver BC again on kijiji. I reported them to kijiji and to hotmail since they were using a @live.com address.

Obviously this person is not a native English speaker, but that’s not unusual; this city has a lot of different nationalities.

This online scam is also referred as Nigerian 419 Letter, where the 419 stands for the section of Nigeria’s penal code that this online scam violates.

I couldn’t agree more with you. Nice thread.