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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:22 pm

https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=95404

A long term rental request will usually produce a pink pig

All information helpful - money mule - telephone number - etc.

Current add http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sub/4861241208.html will probalby get flagged soon.

New baiters welcome

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:30 pm

web site booking made http://www.theplacereservation.net/ (straight bait on the cards) ---- straight for the Pig

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:07 am

Maya wants to party and just make a booking for Boston in April...

update... from the "renters"

Quote:

<--masked

Thanks for your reply. Our Two bedroom is $490 a week and $70 a night. So for your 2 weeks stay the total is $980.

This includes all utilities. - Air Condition, Microwave, Washer, Oven, DVD, Sound systems, Dryer, LCD Tv, Cable TV and Wireless Internet
- All our apartment fully furnish and has fully equipped kitchen
- We supply all linens,cleaning, and there is parking space which is free of charge.
- High speed wireless internet for your convenience.
- cat,dog, Are allowed and it pet friendly .

We take 40% and refundable $300 security deposit to confirm your booking . The amount of 40% would be $392 plus $300 security deposit making $692.when we receive the 40% deposit and the security deposit we will mark the date's of the availability calendar and confirm your booking.

Please let us know if you are interested and we can go from there.

Thank you and have a great day.

My reply...

Quote:

Hi. This all sounds very reasonable and I am interested. Please reserve it for me for the dates I mentioned, April 1-15. Also, please provide confirmation number, street address and any other information I need.

Many thanks!

Quote:

Routing Number : 113008465
Bank name: Wood forest
Bank Address: Houston Texas 77063

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:04 am

This is what I get on clicking the website link;

Quote:

This domain has recently been purchased.
Please allow 48 hours for this domain be to be active.

I'll try the email I think....

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:44 pm

Had to keep telling him I don't do Moneygram and finally scored some bacon!

See below:

Begin forwarded message:

From: onelovea partment <oneloveapartment@ou&&&*om>
Subject: RE: Boston One Bedroom Apartment, 191 Beacon St #1, Boston MA
Date: January 27, 2015 at 12:29:24 PM EST
To: "ame**

Thanks for your reply again.Below is our bank details that you will use to transfer the deposit.

Account Number Routing Number : 113008465
Bank name: Wood forest
Account Name:
Bank Address: 2727dunvaon Texas 77063

Please send us the bank transfer slip immediately you send the deposit,so that we can have it on our file.Please get back to us asap.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Best Regards,

One Love Apartment
www.*****
617 ****

From: amex*******
Subject: Re: Boston One Bedroom Apartment, 191 Beacon St #1, Boston MA
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:45:26 -0500
To: onel***

HI,

Thank you.

I do not use Moneygram or Western Union

Do you have a bank account I can wire to or do you take a credit card?

Steve
On Jan 27, 2015, at 10:27 AM, onelovea partment <onelovea****

Thanks for your reply, we do accept Money Gram for any deposit that is below $600.Take the money gram charges from the $380. Please get back to us asap.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Best Regards,

One Love Apartment

From: amexem(((((
Subject: Re: Boston One Bedroom Apartment, 191 Beacon St #1, Boston MA
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:06:32 -0500
To: onelovea******

HI,

Thank you.

Do you have a bank account I can wire to or do you take a credit card?

Steve

On Jan 27, 2015, at 10:03 AM, onelovea partment <oneloveapa***

Thanks for your reply.The security deposit will be given back to you on your checking out day.since you are ready to make your reservation now before anybody book your date,we are going to send you a receipt and your booking confirmation slip immediately we confirm your deposit..You are going to use your booking confirmation number to check in to the apartment when you arrive.So we will advise you to make your deposit through Money Gram now.Below are the information that you will use to send the deposit of $380 at the Money Gram store around you.

Name: <snip>city: Compton
state: California
zip Code: 90222
COUNTRY:USA

Please send us the Reference Number and the full name you use to send the deposit so that we can be able to confirm the deposit and send your booking confirmation number immediately.Please get back to us asap.Thanks for your co-operation and we will love to have you in our apartment.

Best Regards,

One L

Edited to remove mule info-Capone

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 08 May 2015 Posts: 3

This fake rental site is now in http://theredeemer.jimdo.com/
I found them in Craiglists, made contact and they send me the same mail you put here.
Thank you for the advice.
Mary Joe

Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 4:56 pm

^ Thanks for the tip-off. I'll take care of that website Smile

Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 5:00 pm

Welcome to the forum maryjoe. Please stop all communication with this criminal because he has your real information.

Please post the email address he is currently using along with any telephone numbers that he may have give to you.

Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 5:25 pm

Report has now been sent for http://theredeemer.jimdo.com/.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 08 May 2015 Posts: 3

Woody:
I received this e-mail:

"
onelovea partment <[email protected]>
5:38 p. m.

Thanks for your reply. Our one bedroom is $350 a week and $50 a night. So for your 3 days stay the total is $150.

This includes all utilities. - Air Condition, Microwave, Washer, Oven, DVD, Sound systems, Dryer, LCD Tv, Cable TV and Wireless Internet
- All our apartment fully furnish and has fully equipped kitchen
- We supply all linens,cleaning, and there is parking space which is free of charge.
- High speed wireless internet for your convenience.
- cat,dog, Are allowed and it pet friendly .

We take 40% and refundable $200 security deposit to confirm your booking . The amount of 40% would be $60 plus $200 security deposit making $260.when we receive the 40% deposit and the security deposit we will mark the date's of the availability calendar and confirm your booking.

Please let us know if you are interested and we can go from there.

Thank you and have a great day.
"

In addition to seem very cheap, the order to pay the security deposit in advance seemed unusual to me. Then I began to investigate before answering the e-mail. I was lucky to discover that it was a fake site before falling into the trap.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

Sent reply, hoping for some pink pork McLovin.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

Well, that was fast. I almost think too fast. I sent a "sounds good let's book it" email and he sends me a bank account in the next email?!? Literally the third email in the exchange. Is he playing for something else or just stupid and/or desperate? Question

No WU/MG request or anything.
Am I being reverse baited somehow?

Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 6:25 pm

I decided that one of my characters (and her friend from another country, plus a dog) needed a holiday apartment.

After an initial exchange, the lad wrote:

Thanks for your reply.The security deposit will be given back to you on your checking out day.since you are ready to make your reservation now before anybody book your date,we are going to send you a receipt and your booking confirmation slip immediately we confirm your deposit..You are going to use your booking confirmation number to check in to the apartment when you arrive.So we will advise you to make your deposit through Western Union now.Below are the information that you will use to send the deposit of $496 at the Western Union store around you.

<WU details>

Please send us the MTCN and the full name you use to send the deposit so that we can be able to confirm the deposit and send your booking confirmation number immediately.Please get back to us asap.Thanks for your co-operation and we will love to have you in our apartment.

My character wrote:

That's great. I'll have to get my fellow traveller to do this for us, though, coz at the moment I'm in the Netherlands, and I don't speak Dutch, so doing this sort of thing is just too difficult for me. My companion though is in her own country, so she can do this quite easily.

Will that make any difficulty in your receiving though? I can give you all details of my friend, if that helps.

She forgot to mention that the friend/fellow traveller does not write very good English.

Edited to add:

The lad replied quite quickly.

He wrote:

Thanks for your reply, you can forward your friend the details to send the deposit,all you just have to do is to get back to us with the western union receipt immediately your friend send the deposit.Just get back to us as soon as possible.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.Below is the details again your friend will use to send the deposit at the western union store around her.

<Details again>

Please email us back as soon as possible.

My character wrote:

OK, I'll do that, that's super. She's an hour ahead of me in time, so probably in bed by now, and she's a Christian, so will be at church tomorrow, but we'll get back to you as soon as possible, no problem.

Thanks for your help.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

If he follows form your next reply will be a bank account. This one is dead, but I'm going to try to string him out till next weekend.

I know this is masked but please don't include full account numbers and names--Capone

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:15 pm

@ maryjoe - thanks - the lad didn't bother to change his script after the previous site was nuked. Laughing

It appears that our efforts are starting to hurt this lad. He is now using free subdomains instead of paying for a registered domain name and hosting.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 11:31 am

The lad wrote:

Have you now contacted your friend about the deposit?Please get back to us as soon as possible.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Shani wrote:

Good morning! Yes, she said that she would contact you today.

Please keep the apartment reserved for us for those dates.

Thank you.

The lad wrote:

Okay,she will contact us today when she send the deposit?

Shani wrote:

I guess so. I forwarded her the payment details.

Shani wrote:

Okay,what is the name of her country where she is sending the deposit from? and also you can tell her to forward everything to you so that you can send us the details.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

Hello again,

My friend is from Chisinau in Moldova. She went to Western Union this morning, but she didn't realise that they only accept cash, so she's going to the bank this afternoon, and then will send the deposit tomorrow.

Why are we paying to Washington though? It's the two bedroom New York apartment that we want. I did fill in the correct form, didn't I?

Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 9:15 pm

Lad wrote:

Thanks for your reply,you are booking our two bedroom apartment in New York,you are sending your deposit to our office in Washington,that is our office details you will send the deposit to.Below are the details again.

<WU details>

Please send us the MTCN and the full name you use to send the deposit so that we can be able to confirm the deposit and send your booking confirmation number immediately.Please get back to us asap.Thanks for your co-operation and we will love to have you in our apartment.

Shani wrote:

Hi, I'm not reallly sure what MTCN means, but I guess that Sofia will know, so I'll tell her to make sure to include it.

I'm a little bit concerned that we might arrive a little late - maybe about 10 pm, or even 11 pm. Where will we pick up the keys?

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 5:33 pm

http://theredeemer.jimdo.com/ is now dead.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

Good deal. Working on seeing how many "new" pictures I can get him to send me because I need a 4 bedroom for a church retreat with wealthy donors. Maybe try to flip it into something more.

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 8:31 pm

Today the lad and my character Shani have thanked each other a lot.

The lad wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Money Transfer Control Number ( MTCN) It's a 10 digit number that will be on the western union receipt they will give to her when she send the deposit tomorrow.You can arrive at anytime our doorman work 24 hours, you will be checked in immediately you arrive,just come straight to the apartment with your booking confirmation number we will send to you immediately we confirm your deposit.Checking in procedure is very easy and simple.Just get back to us with the western union details as soon as she send the deposit tomorrow. Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Then he wrote:

Good morning,

As she send the deposit?Please get back to us asap.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

Hi, I was now coming to write to you anyway. I heard from Sofia, and she went to 2 western unions, but there they ask what you are sending for (coz i think they have some fraud there), and apparently they don't allow sending money for rental deposits. One of the cashiers she was speaking to said that the better way to pay is by credit card, coz of security, or by foreign draft, so what do you think?

Sorry for this delay, I didn't know they'd be so fussy there.

The lad wrote:

Thanks for your reply and concern, we can only accept the deposit through western union or money gram since you are coming from out side united state,that is how we accept,you can tell her to go to money gram store and send it,she can still send it through western union if she tell them to allow her to send it they will allow her because is her money.Please instruct her to send it through western union or money gram right now.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

Moneygram should be alright, they have them at post offices, and that's kind of different, coz they have banking too, I've even got a post office account, amongst several others! Right, I'll write to Sofia and tell her to go to moneygram, I really hope that avoids the problem, coz otherwise we'll have to cancel the booking and choose somewhere else, and its quite short notice really, so i'd prefer not to have to do that.
Anyway, ok, thanks for your help. I'll get back to you.

The lad wrote:

Yes,money gram will be much okay,just get back to us as soon as possible.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Then he wrote:

Tell her to go money gram store right now and send it,she has to tell them she is sending the money for personal purpose.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

'for personal purposes'. That's a good idea. Thanks

The lad wrote:

Even you can send the money from Nederland to us,just look for any western union store around you and send the deposit,that will be very easy from Nederland.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

I don't speak Dutch, that's the problem. I'm staying here with an English-speaker, though, so maybe he can help me. What would you prefer us to do? I haven't written to Sofia yet.

The lad wrote:

Yes,money gram will be much okay,just get back to us as soon as possible.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Then he wrote:

Tell her to go to money gram and send it right now. She will let them know is for persona purpose if they ask her any question.Jut write her now,so that she can do it now.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

OK, I'll write straight away.

Thanks for everything.

The lad wrote:

Okay,get back to us asap.If she still have problem from sending the money in Money Gram over there,you can now ask some one in Nederland to help you and send it.But am very sure she will not have problem with money gram.Thanks and we really love to have you in our apartment.

Shani wrote:

OK, will do. Many thanks!

The lad wrote:

Thanks and love to hear from you soon.Thanks.

Then he wrote:

You can let her know everything on phone so that she can get everything done on time before money gram close today.Thanks.

And then he wrote:

As she contacted you yet when you message her?

Shani wrote:

Hi, no I haven't heard anything back, so I guess she didn't check her email this afternoon. She is staying with her parents in Moldova at the moment, and I've got her number, but I don't like to call her, coz there's always so much of her family there, and it's their home phone, so anyone can answer, and no one can speak English except her - it's embarrasing. But, she always checks her emails in the morning, so no worry, she'll go to moneygram tomorrow morning after reading my mail, i know.

Have a nice evening.

The lad wrote:

Okay,please update us as soon as possible tomorrow morning your time.Thanks.

Shani wrote:

Yes I will. Thank you.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 08 May 2015 Posts: 3

I am sure this person have "we really love to have you in our apartment" in the clipboard.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

Quote:

You are not serious ,please don't ever contact us again.

Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 9:55 pm

^^ Hit him again from a new email account Very Happy

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

Yep. got another waiting in the wings. Just trying to figure out how to evolve a straight bait into something more complex and fun. Or just stick a keylogger into his machine, but we won't talk about that here. And I don't know how to do it anyway. Very Happy

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