And is this yet another???

[joddle]

I received an oddly worded request last week which I turned down due to the numbers of people in the proposed party - a few days later I have been contacted by the same people but now with a different size of party and different dates for visit - but using exctly the same odd wording.

I have checked with SH and Claus has informed me they have sent 10 other enquirys of the same nature but no one else is reporting it as suspicious. However I am no so sure. Why on earth are they adding information about their passports? - especially as the email originates in Spain anyway!!!!

Has anyone else had this? I am not intending to reply this time as it does not feel right or if I do it well be a refusal.

A copy of one of the queries is below.

Contact information:
Name: leticia

Travel dates:
Arrival: 18 June 2010
Departure: 20 June 2010

People in party:
Adults: 4
Children: 1
Infants: 1

Enquiry:
cuanto tendria que pagar y que documentacion tengo que aportar y si puedo recervarlo y cuanto tengo que pagar de todo y hablo español y tengo pasaporte

[Beachcomber]

The phrasing in Spanish seems a bit strange and has a couple of spelling mistakes, very rare in Spanish as a word is always spelt as it sounds, not like English.

[pepsipuss]

I don't think the spelling is necessarily poor enough to indicate a scam, especially as she does not say she IS Spanish but that she speaks it. I get lots of badly spelled enquiries from Spanish people and poor grammar too.

However I would definitely be worried that the number in the party changed when you told them there were too many of them and on those grounds I might be inclined not to proceed, or at least to challenge her to clarify.