Reservation Inquiry

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

Hello,Good day to you. Kindly check if we can use 7 nights ( November 24th to 30th ) at your place. I want you to email me the availability and the cost.We are 2, My Wife and I.We are coming for our honeymoon. we dont smoke and we dont drink neither do we have pets.I await your swift response.

Dr Jeremy Jass.

why do they think being a Dr. will impress me?

It's normally a Sat-Sat rental, as advertised. 24-30Nov is 6nights? if you meant 24Nov-1Dec, that's Mon-Mon 7nights. It is available for that holiday period for $2100 + $500 security deposit.

a very quick reply to a not cheap rental yields exactly what I expected.

Thanks for your prompt response.I have discussed this with my Wife about this and we have agreed to use your place and as for the cost, we are alright with it. My Wife's employers will be the one responsible for all our our vacation expenses as a wedding gift and they have promised to send you a certified check as soon as you have penned these dates down for us. Kindly email me your full name,physical address, home and cell phone number so that the payment can be mailed out to you soon.
Waiting to read from you.Have a great week ahead.
Regards
Dr. Jass

I will reserve on receipt of funds. You may PayPal the funds to my email address or have your employer do that, their promised certified check can be used to pay PayPal.
Regards,

hmmmm, no quick response

[muzjik Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzjik]

we dont smoke and we dont drink neither do we have pets.

We also don't capitalize or use punctuation.

[fair_wynd Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fair_wynd]

why do they think being a Dr. will impress me?

a very quick reply to a not cheap rental yields exactly what I expected.


hmmmm, no quick response

Good ol' Dr. Jass wrote to me on 9/13/08 using the exact same initial email but when I asked him what dates he needed he said :

"If our payment is made, then we will know the dates and time." ... HUH???

He went on to say "but it should be between 17-25 of sept." If he rents both our places that's going to be one loooooong honeymoon!!

But, I doubt that I will hear from him again since I refused to take the certified check from his wife's employer and insisted payment be made through PayPal. Silly me, until I read your post I still had hopes that this guy was on the level and went to great lengths explaining to him why PayPal was a great option and how it would protect him..... sheeesh.
Liz

[allenh91801 Member Find all posts View Profile Close allenh91801]

I've received so many of those junk emails. They are all fraud. I hope that people won't fall for that and get scammed out of money. I ONLY use PAYPAL. I even eat the credit card fees as to not deal with the hassle of checks. It's just not worth it.

[muzjik Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzjik]

I'm in the process of corresponding (using a fake name and unidentified email) with a gentleman who wants to buy my timeshare...the Kansas one on the beach that is still close to skiing.

He is ok with the price of $55,000 and his business associates will be sending me a certified check for $128,000.

I just know all sorts of terrible things are going to happen as I try to cash the check and send him the balance. I am already quite sad that he will not be enjoying sitting under the palm trees on the Kansas beach.

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Craigslist

Hello Sir/Madam,
How are you doing today? My name is Alko Arellano.I came across the advert of your vacation rental on "craiglist"which I am interested in booking for November 15-27 .I want to know if the dates are available so I can reserve the dates.Please note that the days are flexible so I am open to new dates if the dates i requested for are not available .
In your reply let me know how much it will cost to reserve the dates and your mode of payment.I prefer you reply me via this Email.I await your response.
A. Arellano

Hey,Good day to you. Kindly help us check 3 nights that is available in (September2008) at your place. I want you to email me the availability on cost.We are 2, My Wife and I.We are coming for our honeymoon. we dont smoke and we dont drink neither do we have pets.I await your swift response. adebajo banjo

the listing these guys replied to was for a specific week 8-15Nov?
I really don't like Craigslist.
Anyone recognize Dr Jeremy Jass from post #16 above.

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and today in answer to a different Craigslist listing

Hello,Good day to you. Kindly check if we can use 7 nights (Oct 23 - 31) at your place. I want you to email me the availability an cost.We are 2, My Wife and I.We are coming for our honeymoon. we dont smoke and we dont drink neither do we have pets.I await your swift response. dr+john honeycutt

[CarolF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CarolF]

Would a line in your advertisement stating "payment by PAYPAL only" be enough to discourage at least some of these scammers?

[bnoble Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bnoble]

Of course not. Sending the email requires almost no effort---and even some folks who say paypal only may be desperate enough to fall for such an obvious ploy.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Also, apparently there's a way to do the same scam using PayPal. They "send" funds and then it may take PayPal a few days to discover that they don't HAVE funds. Something like that, I'm not sure exactly how it works. But you need to be careful, even with PayPal.