Not obviously a scam but...

[Giddy Goat]

Agree. Let's see what his reply is but meanwhile, try this? http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?Getlocation

Later ... just had a play - both his email addresses trace back to California: Mountain View and Sunnyvale ... even then, didn't I read somewhere here that there is a clever way to divert your emails to another IP address?

There's this tool as well: http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email

[Normandie]

Would it be this one ????

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from Terry Martyn <jythr4356@gmail.com>
reply-to martyn_terry@yahoo.com
to villamanonauriol@yahoo.fr
date 8 August 2010 18:47
subject Demandes de renseignements concernant votre location vacances ...... s'il vous plaît répondre en anglais
Signed by gmail.com
hide details 18:47 (19 hours ago)
Bonjour Madame / Monsieur,

Comment allez-vous aujourd'hui? etc etc

Yep, that's precisely the one. And yes, like yours, it came in yesterday evening. Well, I won't be holding my breath for a response to my request for his address and phone nr (though a fake one wouldn't be exactly difficult to dream up).

I'll use the email tracker and see what I can come up with. Edited to add: and I came up with the same as GG. Though the timings of his correspondence with me would fit with US time zones. As well as other places in the world!

I see he also wrote to [email address deleted by admin] - from his email header.
chambrehotemanon.fr/
So that's Normandy, Sancerre and Provence. Very flexible!

Thanks all. I'll keep you informed. Happily, I've had another enquiry for the dates I had available for him so I'll see if I can convert the new enquiry before he gets back to me.

[escape2charente]

Hi,

His just tried to book with me, all the same details as above.

Got to be a scam.

[Normandie]

So it would appear - I've not heard anything back this evening. Well. My first scam approach. I'm very proud. I feel as though I've really arrived on the b&b map.

Thanks everyone for your input. It's appreciated.

[Normandie]

And he's back.

With an address and phone number. The address is bogus because apart from the spelling of the road name, if I assume Hazelbourne Road there isn't one in sw195ns though there is one very near Clapham South tube station in SW12. I haven't bothered phoning the mobile number but apparently it's a Jersey, CI-issued mobile nr according to the Great God Google.

23 Hazaelebourne rd
Clapham South
London
sw195ns

+447700022863

I've asked for clarification of the spelling of the road name. For now.