Recently I've been advertising a room for rent and a few days ago received an eager response via moveflat. I was almost immediately suspicious of it, and my intuition proved correct.
I was being scammed. What follows is an email-by-email account of my conversation with "Bayo Morgan", and how I'm trying to turn the tables on the scammer. I'll be updating this entry as the conversation progresses Dear Paul i'm Bayo Morgan.
I am interested in your advert. Anticipating towards your letter. Regards, Bayo Morgan. What's immediately odd here is that he's asking questions which are all answered in the webpage. If you're going to scam someone, at least pay attention. This garners a terse reply from me:. Dear Paul, Thanks for your concern,i appreciate your mail,the price is okay for me. So this time the guy signs off as Morrin.
There's very little content in his email aside from asking what the total amount for the whole 16week period is. Now that is weird: I've never heard of anyone pre-paying residential rent.
Still, I wouldn't complain ;-. Let's forgive that anyone with 30s spare and a calculator could work out that amountβall the info is on the webpage!
