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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.
Zingara
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Post by Zingara »

From Owners Direct...? not...

Dear Owner
Dear,
Thank you for advertising with OwnersDirect.co.uk.
The UK’s most searched for holiday rentals site
Dear Owner,
For additional security information please email us :
1) A recent utility bill for your rental property, in your name.
2) A recent utility bill for your residential property, in your name
3) A valid copy of your passport/National ID card/Driver’s License
4) Property address
5) Proof of ownership of property
6) Land registry
7)Property Ref
Please email documents to: contact@help-owner.co.uk
yada-yada-yada
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Post by GRL »

... which I am sure OD will of course tell us to be careful about (NOT)
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Post by kevsboredagain »

Report it to the registrar.

Domain name:
help-owner.co.uk

Registrant:
Owners Help

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
4 herga road, harrow
london
Uk
HA3 5AT
United Kingdom

Data validation:
Nominet was not able to match the registrant's name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 19-Apr-2015

Registered through:
domaindiscount24
URL: http://www.domaindiscount24.net

Registrar:
Key-Systems GmbH [Tag = KEY-SYSTEMS-DE]
URL: http://www.Key-Systems.net

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 19-Apr-2015
Expiry date: 19-Apr-2016
Last updated: 19-Apr-2015

Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.

Name servers:
ns1.domaindiscount24.net
ns2.domaindiscount24.net
ns3.domaindiscount24.net
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Post by Zingara »

I'd be happy to forward it, Kev (already done to spoof@homeaway etc)...but direct me, and I'll get it off
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Post by kevsboredagain »

Zingara wrote:I'd be happy to forward it, Kev (already done to spoof@homeaway etc)...but direct me, and I'll get it off
I already did but if they come back asking for headers, I'll let you know.
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Post by Zingara »

Thank you :)
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Post by FelicityA »

I am SO suspicious of anything now from the listing sites! I had a spoof one "from" VRBO the other day saying I had to log in and confirm various things due to someone reporting me as fake villa listing. Yeah, right.

I sent to spoof@homeaway. The hidden email address had eiq in it.

Now today, I have received a survey (allegedly) from Owner's Direct and I see their email address also has this mysterious eiq in the address. Is it real?? They do address me by name. The other one was Dear ,

PS I have worked my way through the header, guessing what to do with information as I go, as I am no techie, and I have arrived at Homeaway headquarters in Austin so I guess it is real!!
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Post by mi casa »

We received the survey also Felicity - think it's genuine all right. They tell us we are valued customers or some such rubbish. Don't think I'll bother have done so in the past and they never bothered to take anything on board. :?
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Post by Joanna »

We live in Harrow and I know Herga road - I wonder if they really live there or if they just picked an address at random.
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Post by kevsboredagain »

They have replied and asked for the header to the email and the original message. If you could post the header and the email to kevin@ .. one of my domains, the I will forward the details.

Or you can send them to the email given in their reply.

Dear Mr. Wilson,

in order to proceed with your issue please send us unaltered version of the message in question togehter with complete header details.

Best regards,

Daniel Reiter

Your Team @ RRPproxy.net

Phone : + 49 (0) 6894 93 96 870
Fax : + 49 (0) 6894 93 96 871
Email : support @ rrpproxy.net

Key-Systems GmbH
Im Oberen Werk 1
66386 St. Ingbert
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Post by brendan »

I also received the valued customer (choked on cornflakes!) survey request from Owners Direct.

Thought ´ Is this a scam or not?´ .....and concluded that it must be a scam because Owners Direct do not value their customers and certainly don´t take a blind bit of notice of anything they might have to say!
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Post by kevsboredagain »

This domain could have been shut down with evidence from the email header but sadly it's still active and no doubt still being used to scam people.
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