Damian Barbas yet another from OD

[aussiefrog]

No details whatsoever provided, just this message:

hi there, i am interested renting your place for 9th to 14th of Octomber. I love the place and i`m looking forward to stay at your property. Regards Damian

[Casscat]

It certainly has more than the pungent whiff of scam about it

[Renaud2]

Same message, different dates, different name, no details:

Mattew Mcain

"hi there, i am interested renting your place for 20th to 25th of June. I love the place and i`m looking forward to stay at your property. Best regards Mattew"

from an 'outlook.com' email address.

[edinburgh]

Obviously there is a scam, but what is it?

Do they turn up and chargeback the credit card?

Do they issue a cheque for more than the value, and receive a bank transfer of the value back?

Has anyone actually humoured these fake enquiries, to see where they're headed?

[aussiefrog]

And yet another, from OD of course, but with different dates from Jacob Otley, who - how amazing - signs himself Chris. Can't remember his own name?

Hi there, i am interested renting your place for 5th to 12th December.I`m looking forward to stay at your property. Best regards Chris

[aussiefrog]

Obviously there is a scam, but what is it?

Do they turn up and chargeback the credit card?

Do they issue a cheque for more than the value, and receive a bank transfer of the value back?

Has anyone actually humoured these fake enquiries, to see where they're headed?

Any of the above! I wonder if there isn't some way we could turn this around. Create some silly scam and send it out to all of these scam email addresses. Perhaps eventually they'd all end up trying to scam each other?