Another scam!

[A. F Medic]

My son is trying to move from Salt Lake City back to Northern Pa. He has looked for various homes here on the internet and he has been getting this email response in various forms. The guy may be a Engineer working in Africa or a minister working in Africa, etc. They want your personal information.

My son is no dummy as he is a Design Consultant and he caught this right away. The people who are doing this must have access to sales, rentals, etc. Copy and forward if you want!!


I have removed the house address. Always cheap rent or price!!!



Hello,

It's my great pleasure that you are interested in our lovely 2BR, 1Full bath home for rent. I am Pastor Thomas Daniel the owner of this home, Actually we resided in this home before and presently we have packed out due to my transfer as a matter of my profession,where I work as a volunteer with Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA),here is the site for more detail about why I am here in West Africa,Nigeria. (Wycliffe Bible Translators: World Missions for Unreached People Groups
) And my wife who is a missionary's dealing with Bible Translation and literacy worldwide.

As soon as we settle down here I had a thought of selling the house so I have to look for an agent, after getting one, we got a deal but later my wife advised against that. I reasoned with her and accepted her advise. So I contacted the agent back and requested for my keys and documents. Later we decided to have the house rent out, we would have give the same agent this job also but the truth of the matter is that the agent would want to handle it professionally and the occupant may not be able to reason along with him later. If you notice, you will discovered that the price we are offering is far below standard price, this is enough for you to know that we are not after the rental fee but the absolute care for the property.
We will be serving for a long term and now our home is locked up now and presently we have found a new home here which we will be staying for a very long term which might last 5 years in (West Africa,Nigeria) and presently our lovely home is still available for rent for ($550)as first month rent and ($550)for deposit which includes the utilities

More so,Now that we on Retreat program over here.Please I want you to note that all we will want is a very honest and neat person,so i will solicit for your absolute understanding and maintenance of this home and want you to treat it as your own,i am with the keys and documents here with me which will be sent to any responsible and interested tenant through FedEx further more you have to undergo some processes before i could be willing and convince to let my home to any tenant. The money is not the main problem but i want you to keep it tidy always. I also want you to let me have trust in you as i have always stand on my word.

****RENT APPLICATION DETAILS****

Please if you are ready now to occupy the house kindly provide the information below for record purpose:

PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF
Full Name______________________________________________ ____ Home Phone ( & nbsp; ) ________________________
Date of Birth_________________________________
Other Phone ( ) ___________________
Current Address_______________________________Apt#________ City__________________ State______ Zip________
Reasons for Leaving____________________________Rent $__________Phone ( ) ____________________________
Are you married____________________________
How many people will be living in the house____________________________
How many people will be living in the house____________________________
Do you have a pet____________________________
Do you have a car____________________________
Occupation____________________________
How soon can you have the deposit and rent payment sent to me_________________________
How soon do you want to receive the keys________________________________________
Move In Date____________________________
Your Family Pictures ____________________________


Looking forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file in case 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 keys to you,please we are giving you all this base on trust and sincerity so I won't like you to disappoint us.

NB: You can go check the neighborhood and get back to me for further discussion.I have recently remove my home from the market cause my wife advice me not to sell it any longer,the sign post will be removed once i get any responsible tenant cause my agent is not around now,so you ignore the sign post cause i have stop dealing and contacting the Realtor for too much fees i pay trying to rip me off.It is available for a long term lease as we will be here for 5 years and also intend buying a new home on getting back to the states.


Rent:550
Deposit:550
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1 full, 1 partial
Size: 1,024 sqft
Nice and love neighbourhood in a conductive location

Pet Allowed
Utilities included in the rent
Lease Terms :
A Year and More

Best Regards
Pastor Thomas Daniel and Family

YOU CAN REACH ME ON THE NUMBERS BELOW
+234-813-296-6030 or 011-234-813-296-6030










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[jamie5070]

I wonder if the phone numbers are those that if you dial them they charge you an exhobatant amount per minute.
john

[e3mrk]

I would wonder why They want Pictures of Your Family.

[A. F Medic]

If you had listed your home for rent or sale Craig's List, you probably got harvested. So, they are getting your leads and your lead's money.

[enfield303t]

There are countless scams like this going on every day on the internet. The english and spelling in this one is better than the average and believe me I have declined hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years to help someone get a "security chest"/inheritance of gold, cash, bonds whatever out of the country. The people who send these are very good at mass emailing thousands of people with one click. About once a year I hear of someone where I live falling for some sort of scam like this. If I remember correctly the last one cost this couple around $5,000.00. Was it P.T. Barnum that said "there's a sucker born every minute"? I just checked and as suspected the international dial code 234 is Nigeria where most of these scams originate. Remember if they get one sucker every year their take is multiple times the average annual income in Nigeria.
I checked the annual income in Nigeria and it is less than $700.00 US per year, get a damage deposit and first months rent of $1,100.00 USD and this guy is rich.
I can almost guarantee your son will now be getting "offers" on a regular basis from these people and their friends.

[phil441]

So you're tellin' me that the Nigerian widow ain't really sending me that 1.5 Million?
Dang! There goes the retirement years spent in luxury. Wish I hadn't read this.......

[villiers]

I assure you that it´s a SCAM! You´d be MUCH better off sending the money to ME! (pm me first and I´ll send you details of my bank account. I promise to spend your hard earned cash on Enfields and nubile women. This is an offer you CANNOT refuse!)

[enfield303t]

Sorry to break your heart phil. I turned down around 20 million this week as I just don't have the space to keep that much cash.

PS
phil 441 I just turned down 45% of 15 million, this would create even a bigger problem than I have now.

I am told that the best way to stop this is to go to gmail as my email address as they get so little spam.