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Complaint Review: Laura Lewis - Internet

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  • Reported By: Katie — Provo Utah USA
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I was trying to sell a student housing contract on Craiglist and got the text message: Please send me an email on lewislaura120@gmail.com if the room is still available..Thanks. Laura.

 

Seems innocent enough, though weird she would text, insisting that I email.  I email her that the room is still availabe, and she sends me the following email.

 

Hello. My name is Laura Lewis. I really want the room.  I was born in France i speak both French & English.  I'm coming to stay for a year, and am coming for my master's degree

 I am currently in Agat, Guam on research. I will be back in less than 2 weeks. I wi ll be paying  for the room by Check from my dad before my arrival. I am single, fun, loving, clean, loyal and respectful of others, don't have any pet. My father is from US and my mother is from France. I'm 25yrs old. I attended American University of Paris, graduated 2 year ago.

I would love to call you but here is a remote area. calls are very hard to go through. please send me some picture of the room if you can because i will not be able to come over and check on it before renting. Please tell me little about yourself… Let me know the total amount for the first month rent, i will be paying upfront so that you can be rest assured that am really interested in renting the room from you...

Please get back to me with the following details so that i can ensure you are ready to rent the room to me. I will sign all necessary papers/Lease at the point of my arrival because there is no printer and scanner close to me.

 

Full Name:

Full address with apt#:

Cell & Home #:

Total amount for move in:

 

I'll be waiting to read back from you with the information requested so that i can forward it to my father to issue out the check for the deposit and month rent upfront as soon as possible, with that you can hold on the place prior my arrival.Thanks for your co-operation.

 

Doesn't seem too weird except for the Guam part, the insistence that I cannot speak to her over the phone, and the fact that she will be paying by check.  Oh, and the fact that in her research station there are no printers...hmmmm.  So I'm pretty desperate to sell this place, so I tell her that I would be happy to skype with her (she obviously has internet if she can email) to show her around the place (my fear is if it is a scam that she will get all the information (and pictures) from me and then try to sell it from another Craiglist posting).  So I email her that, and didn't hear a response.  

So, thinking it could definitely still be a scam, I check the area code.  It's Californian.  No way that she is Parisian and in Guam and is using an American cellphone.  Yeah.  So anyway, I wrote her/him a threatening email back, and am about to report to craigslist.

 

This scam wouldn't have affected me.  I am just selling my contract and my apartment manager would take care of the finances and would have no problem rejecting a scam if she tried to use fake money, but I don't like scams at all.

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#3 Consumer Comment

Attempted to scam me too

AUTHOR: Beezy321 - (USA)

POSTED: Monday, January 11, 2016

 The scammer's new email (or current as of this morning) is: lewislaura10@gmail.com She sent me the exact same email asking for my personal information so that she could mail a check. I'm glad I didn't respond and I will be contacting the website administration today. Thanks for filing this!

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#2 General Comment

Exprienced the Exact Same

AUTHOR: Francism - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, December 16, 2015

My Boyfriend is moving in with me and he reieved an exact email/text saying the same thing. She said she'd be in town on the 23rd Dec and needed immediate move in. I googled and found this report. I just wanted to Thank you for filing it so we didn't fall into the same scam.

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#1 Consumer Comment

Had the Same Exact Experience

AUTHOR: davidnb08 - (USA)

POSTED: Tuesday, December 15, 2015

All of the text was exactly the same except it was lewislaura200@gmail.com. Definitely a scammer.

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