jo2beans

I have received an enquiry that is probably yet another scam that is going around, so all owners that rent out their properties please be careful. This is the message I had sent to me. I have removed telephone number and email details.

Our name: henric coles
Our email: XXXXXXXX@yahoo.com
Our telephone: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Requesting availability arriving on 1 Mar 2006 and leaving on 21 Mar 2006



hello, i will like the apartment for my uncle who stays in africa nigeria coming
on business trip. he will like to pay with cheques/bankdraft and will like you
to deduct the cost of staying for just three weeks and all other allowances and
send back the remaining fund to the issuer of the cheque. well you can call me
on XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and lets complete transaction.

Jo

1larry3

yes it is a scam a Similar one was reported in a computer magazine in which they were asking bands,singers to do a gig and sending them cheques for £3000.when they got to the venue it would be closed,so they would email the guy(in nigeria) he would say sorry and tell you to take a £1000 expenses out of the £3000 cheque and send him back a cheque for £2000 which if you did he would express your cheque through, get the money and by the time his cheque for £3000 had gone to the bank and bounced there would be nothing there
and alot of people fell for it

tonytg

It is definetly a scam.I have heard of many similar versions which all have the same premise which you have already outlined.

lorraine

If I receive anything like this I send it to FraudWatch This is also a good site for researching current internet fraud. If you send the email recieved to this site they deal with it.

Also member Ms Who started a thread on Nigerian Fraudsters Here

Martyn

Heard of this being used on Ebay.

My wife has just had her identity stolen and mobiles phones got through O2, Vodaphone, T-Mobile plus phone insurances set up through a bank account in her name with our address.

There is an independant company(not for profit) set up to stop this happening.

Its at www.cifas.org.uk. I registered both of us yesterday.

simonandlozzie

Yes we had the same when we were selling our Mercedes. We informed the Fraud dept at the bank but they were already aware of this scam. So beware, it's not just cars but the housing market now!

Bryan Sargent

i say,
mercedes eh?

tonytg

Could have been Lamborgini, now that would be flash (and a target for the scammers !)