Architects' conference!

Post scam emails to warn other rental owners, or if you are not sure if an enquiry is genuine, put it up here and see what others think.
Gazpacho
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Architects' conference!

Post by Gazpacho »

This arrived today from OD! Perhaps some scammers have realised that normal replies through OD don't show our email addresses any more...

Hello,
Your place is what we need! We are a group of 4 architects working for the same company.
We have a conference in your city and we will love to rent your place if our dates are available.
If so we will need some sort of printable offer from you. We need the printable version to present it to our financial department, the payment will then be submitted in total.
Looking forward in your answer.Please also send the printable offer to my email address: ********* @ gmail . com
Regards
Henry Chadwick

Our little Spanish village is not well known as a conference venue!
AndrewH
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Post by AndrewH »

Here is part of Henry Chadwick's LinkedIn profile:

Henry Chadwick | LinkedIn
uk.linkedin.com/pub/henry-chadwick/20/588/438
Architect Partner- Gelder and Kitchen LLP ·
Architecture & Planning ·
92 connections

View Henry Chadwick's (United Kingdom) professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Henry Chadwick ...


But is this the real Henry Chadwick who has sent the enquiry? Perhaps you might telephone him at his partnership and find out?
Gazpacho
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Joined: Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:42 pm
Location: Andalucia, Spain

Post by Gazpacho »

Interesting. It definitely isn't the real architect as the enquirer has a few tell-tale problems with the English language and refers to our 'city' which scammers always do but genuine UK visitors never would. The email given is not his actual work email on the practice's website, but a gmail one which is easy to set up. It seems that the scammer has gone to the trouble of picking genuine people from the internet to impersonate in order to give their enquiry more credibility!
e-richard
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Re: Architects' conference!

Post by e-richard »

Gazpacho wrote:We need the printable version to present it to our financial department, the payment will then be submitted in total.
Scam !
** Richard
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