Lay My Hat

Wasn't sure at first, now I am pretty sure it's a scam. What does the team think?

Jonathan

Thanks for your prompt response, hope you enjoyed the weekend with
friends and families, I have discussed this with my wife and she seems
excited its will be great pleasure staying in your property my wife
and i really find it very attractive i hope we going to enjoy our stay
in your property if so we will return in December for Christmas maybe
for 5 nights or so.

The total payment will be sent to you and when we arrived we wont have
to pay any utilities bills. For the payment we will require for the
details below.

Full Name on the payment.
Full Address of receiver..
Mobile Phone..
Land phone..

You can either send the rentals booking confirmation by email
attachments or to our address. Patrick Taylor 44 quai Saint Antoine
69502 Lyon France.

Your payment will be issued immediately upon receipt of the request
information. Hope is cleared up and understood?
Your quick response regarding rentals will be greatly
appreciated.please dont mind my English.
Thanks.. Patrick Taylor.


On 8/18/18, Sally & Jonathan Ward <tredingtonmill@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your enquiry. Pool View is available from 6th to 24th
> October 2018 at a price of £1,350. Please let me know if you are
> interested and I will send you a booking form to confirm your
> reservation. Please note that we do not accept overseas cheques.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Ward
>
> _____________________________________

> On 18/08/2018 10:34, Mr Patrick Taylor wrote:
>> My wife and I will want to book your property.. Move In Date..Oct 6th
>> 2018 Move Out Date...Oct 24th 2018. 2 adults 22 nights Available and
>> also the price needed. Am from Lyon..... Kindly email me back with
>> detail and price. Thanks.. Patrick Taylor

Oh, definitely a scam. I love his parting shot "please don't mind my English".

100% scam. It’s the chatty, excited variant.

Mr English Name speaks surprisingly bad English... and Quai de Saint Antoine in Lyon is right in the centre... an unlikely location for an apartment but it is where the restaurants, etc. are... perhaps his workplace??!

THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS:

For the payment we will require for the
details below.

Full Name on the payment.
Full Address of receiver..
Mobile Phone..
Land phone..

THIS IS WHAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN:

Your payment will be issued immediately upon receipt of the request information. Hope is cleared up and understood

AndrewH wrote:THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS:

For the payment we will require for the
details below.

Full Name on the payment.
Full Address of receiver..
Mobile Phone..
Land phone..

THIS IS WHAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN:

Your payment will be issued immediately upon receipt of the request information. Hope is cleared up and understood

...and now he's asking for six weeks with different dates. I am just ignoring him.

Jonathan

I’ve just filed an email in the spam box from Patrick Taylor.
Different wording on the email, but if you look into it, the email sender name if different to the email address.

And another one ........(groan).

Which site is this coming from?