Fu***** SCAM on TRIPADVISOR!!!

[casaatlantida]

My villa is advertised on TRIP ADVISOR from on week - my first query:

Part I

"Guest Name: kenneth
Email Address: johnma2222@yahoo.com
Phone Number: Not Provided
Inquiry Source: TripAdvisor
Number of Guests: 2
Arrival Date: November 11, 2010
Departure Date: November 18, 2010

Message From Guest: We are young married couples coming to Europe for the first time
for our honeymoon, we will love you have given us the cost
details for your flat from the 11th to 18th November, for
me and my beautiful wife. We have flexible dates
Best regards,
How can I respond?
Simply reply to this email and it will be sent directly to the guest. Alternatively, you may contact the guest at the email address or phone number (if provided) from the guest's contact information above. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please free free to contact FlipKey: http://www.flipkey.com//Pages/contact/

Regards,
The FlipKey Team
"

PART II
After my reply (i was already expecting this):

"
Hello ,
Many thanks for your cordial response, and I am glad to hear you have availability covering the period of our stay at your Unit . payment will be made by my Company in full with Euro Funds let me have your info below.N"B
The method of payment is only by European Bank cheque
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
ZIPCODE:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
DURATION:
TOTAL AMOUNT:
EMAIL:
TEL PHONE:
PHYSICAL ADDRESSS(NOT PO BOX)....
PHONE NUMBER(BOTH LAND AND MOBILE)... Here is our full infomation you can use to make the contract papers.

Names : David And Marry
Address: 98b, Normanby Street,
Swinton, Manchester,
Lancashire M27 9TW

Best regards,

...so my friends watch out with this....I am going to complaint on tripadvisor about these scams...
Reg.
Alex
P.S. Did you experience the same????

[paolo]

There isn't much a listing site can do about the enquiries you get. If you put an ad in the paper and got a nuisance call would you complain to the paper?

[casaatlantida]

Sorry Paolo:
Have been advertised in severall paied listing sites and it is very rare to receive this kind of msgs - there are ways to improve this.
Anyway the ideia was to inform you all about this. watch out!
Reg.
Alex

[Margaret]

Alex, if you rarely get this kind of scam, you are very fortunate. I am sure many of us would like to know the secret of your success.

[Marks]

I get several of this type of thing every month. Don't waste your time, hit delete and move on.

[pragueadventure]

We received the same email. Am just wondering what's in it for the person sending the email??! other than apparently taking pleasure in wasting our time, I'm not sure what the pupose of that scam is?

[jayval]

We received the same email. Am just wondering what's in it for the person sending the email??! other than apparently taking pleasure in wasting our time, I'm not sure what the pupose of that scam is?

they might use/ or sell your information to send you spam emails, annoying solicitation or sales calls, or anything you can imagine.

They might also use this info as a start and try to get more information out of you that may end up having your bank account hacked or stuff like that.

[paolo]

This thread is 6 years old but explains why they bother doing this: Rental scams

[pragueadventure]

Thank you! that is very helpful!

[theoharis]

Different name but everything else is the same (Part 1 &2):

Contact Information And Inquiry Details

Guest Name: matt chris
Email Address: mattchris380@gmail.com
Phone Number: Not Provided
Inquiry Source: TripAdvisor
Number of Guests: 2
Arrival Date: November 11, 2010
Departure Date: November 18, 2010
Message From Guest

We are young married couples coming to Europe for the first time for our honeymoon, we will love you have given us the cost details for your flat from the 11th to 18th November, for me and my beautiful wife. We have flexible dates.


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What got me wondering, is these guys coming for their honeymoon in Paros in the middle of November!!!!