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What's the deal with this scam? I don't know anything about since I don't rent any of my rooms out to anyone.

Before any says "Google it", I can't look it up at work. Tech sites and news sites only. Damn the nazi IT man.
 
She is going to send a counterfit money order. It will be for more then the amount of the deposit. She is going to ask him to send some of that money to a 'friend' or some other place. Then she will disappear, the money order will come up bad and he will get stuck paying for it.
 
Originally posted by: sourceninja
She is going to send a counterfit money order. It will be for more then the amount of the deposit. She is going to ask him to send some of that money to a 'friend' or some other place. Then she will disappear, the money order will come up bad and he will get stuck paying for it.
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Ah ha. Thanks!!
 
So let's get this straight.

She's from ENGLAND. (All caps, of course!)
She isn't there now, she's actually living in Abroad. Abroad MUST be a city or a country or something, because she capitalized it.
... she's living there because her mom is a missionary.
... and Abroad has a fine Master's program for Accounting.
... she's a model that just happens to be smart enough for a Master's in Accounting, but not smart enough to write a grammatically correct email.
... and she's accomplished all of this by the age of 24.




The only way all of this could be true is if she's a total whore that screwed a bunch of people to get a Master's degree from a University that she didn't even have to go to. Which means she'd probably bang you for rent every month if you wanted. This is so full of awesome that if you turn it down you're a stupid, stupid man.






😉
 
Originally posted by: Injury
So let's get this straight.

She's from ENGLAND. (All caps, of course!)
She isn't there now, she's actually living in Abroad. Abroad MUST be a city or a country or something, because she capitalized it.
... she's living there because her mom is a missionary.
... and Abroad has a fine Master's program for Accounting.
... she's a model that just happens to be smart enough for a Master's in Accounting, but not smart enough to write a grammatically correct email.
... and she's accomplished all of this by the age of 24.




The only way all of this could be true is if she's a total whore that screwed a bunch of people to get a Master's degree from a University that she didn't even have to go to. Which means she'd probably bang you for rent every month if you wanted. This is so full of awesome that if you turn it down you're a stupid, stupid man.






😉
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That, and noone gets a Masters in Accounting. In Finance maybe, or Economics or even Forensic Accounting, but Masters in plain, old Accounting isn't worth it.

edit: let me qualify that with, it's not worth it unless your state requires it for CPA licensure, which most don't.
 
Seriously people. The first two sentences clued me in to it being a scam. The moment I see atrocious typing like that and see the name of a foreign country and it's in response to anything that involves any sort of money, it's a scam. Pure and simple.
 
shrug, does not sound too fishy...because she is asking to pay you, haha.

she may be soo cheap she cannot call internationally.

 
I don't get where the scam comes in. She sends you a MO, you deposit it. It's either real money or comes back as fake. You lose nothing right?
 
Originally posted by: Mide
I don't get where the scam comes in. She sends you a MO, you deposit it. It's either real money or comes back as fake. You lose nothing right?
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No. It's the same scam as when you list something for sale on craigslist or ebay that I tend to get emails over. Someone from a foreign country contacts you for something. They agree to pay for it with a money order, but it was a money order they wrote out for something else for a "larger" amount. Meaning if you are trying to sell a $500 laptop they'll say they have a $1000 money order. They ship the MO, give you tracking and everything and try to convince you to cross ship your product along with some of the difference in cash like $250. Then when you get the MO from them, it;s a complete fake. Meaning you now lost your item, and $250 on top of that.

This works for anything including renting a place. They'll agree to send a MO they made too big but need some cash back. They are trying to get someone to send money back for a fake money order.

Link to news story.
 
Humm well if you don't cross ship or if you don't send the $250 and just wait for the MO to get denied or whatnot, then you'd be safe I'm thinking. Either way, an obvious fake.
 
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