To all newbies, Beware of the scammers!

[Jemima Copping]

Beware all newbies in the HR community.
After an initial enquiry and reply from me, here is what I got this morning.
To all who think it is a genuine enquiry please be aware that it is a scam.

Dear Sir, Madam

Thanks for getting back to me, i am very happy that you will be able
to rent your accommodation to us,I have discussed this with my wife
and we have agreed to use your place, so i will want you to block
other people from renting this following date:

Arrival Date:30 july 2016
Departure Date: 5 August 2016
Guest: 2 adult
Rental Amount: £500

Here is our company's name below :
Company Name : Oil & Gas Association Ltd

Below is our Name and address where you can send any document:

Name : Micheal Jacob
Home Address: 2500 Holton St
Tallahassee, FL 32310
United State
Tell : +1 (331) 431-6282

Regarding the payment arrangement,I am assuring you that their won't
be any problem because our company's associate in Europe would be
paying for our holiday expenses and they have inform me that they will
be making the payment via Euro Check.

The Euro Check that you will receive will be in excess, has Our trip
expenses which include our B.T.A (Basic Travelers Allowance)fee will
be included with the rental fee base on trust. As soon as you have
receive the Euro Check you would have it deposited into you account
for clearance, you would deduct the rental fee and i will tell you how
to send our trip expenses which include our B.T.A (Basic Travelers
Allowance)fee to my traveling agent so that he can do all paperwork's,
After the Euro Check has been cleared in your account.

I will appreciate if you can get back to me with the following
information that will be need by our company business associate to
make the payment out to you, so that you can receive the Euro Check as
soon as possible:

Full Name on Euro Check:
Full address:
City:
Zip code
province:
Country :
Telephone Number :

I would be very glad if you can be of a helping hand, I will be
looking forward to read back from you with the information needed
above.

Thanks

[Cymraes]

I got my first scam enquiry this week. A real rite of passage!

[Jemima Copping]

I had 2 just like the one I posted here, last year. I just replied to this one telling him that I knew it was a scam, so I'm hoping I won't get any more from these time wasters! They don't even know that Euro Cheques don't exist anymore in the UK!

[e-richard]

I just replied to this one telling him that I knew it was a scam, so I'm hoping I won't get any more from these time wasters!

Unfortunately, all you have done is confirm that your email address is a valid one, so that you can now look forward to a lot more spam and more scams as your email address, now validated is sold on and on and on

[Casscat]

I just replied to this one telling him that I knew it was a scam, so I'm hoping I won't get any more from these time wasters!

Unfortunately, all you have done is confirm that your email address is a valid one, so that you can now look forward to a lot more spam and more scams as your email address, now validated is sold on and on and on

The same is true if you reply in all innocence because you think it's real or is not a blatant, beyond all doubt scam. Also many of the scamsters harvest your email address from listing sites so they already know that the addresses are genuine.

[kevsboredagain]

I just replied to this one telling him that I knew it was a scam, so I'm hoping I won't get any more from these time wasters!

Unfortunately, all you have done is confirm that your email address is a valid one, so that you can now look forward to a lot more spam and more scams as your email address, now validated is sold on and on and on

Scammers and spammers are a different breed and work in different ways. It would take a lot of effort, for little reward for a scammer to keep track of all those who replied and compile a list to sell on to a spammer. Such email verification would be done using software which detected access of a pixel or small graphic on a server. I doubt there would be a person ticking boxes of emails answered.

Spammers on the other hand work on very large numbers and percentages. If they can increase the % of genuine emails they have in their huge list, the effectiveness of their spam increases.

I receive almost zero spam on rental email addresses after 7 years of answering the scammers. It's my personal email that receives all the spam.

[Goldeneye]

Lay my hat is such asaviour we got a scam email today, I wasn't sure but it didn't look quite right so my first port of call was here and this one looks almost exact to the one we got from an American guy. Thanks lay my hat!