[SchlauCow]

So, I recently moved to DC and was recently looking for places to rent, when I stumbled across a very good deal. I emailed the guy and this is the reply I got back.

I went ahead with the deal and now I'm just waiting back for the keys to the place.
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Hello Dear,
It's my great pleasure that you are interested in our lovely 3br/2ba home for rent. I am Rev Jacob C Carr owner of this home. Actually we resided in this home before and presently we have packed out due to me and my wife transfer as a matter of my profession on a campaign tagged"Empowering the Widow and the Needy"... And my wife who is a missionary dealing with Bible Translation and literacy worldwide.

We will be serving for a long term and now our home is locked up now and presently we have found a new home here which we will be staying for a very long term which might last 5 years in (West Africa) NIGERIA and presently our lovely home is still available for rent for ($1000) as first month rent including the utilities like washer,dryer,fireplace,fenced backyard, internet access and garage...

While the security deposit fee ($500) and your first month rent fee ($1000) comes up as the first down payment and move in fee which you will make to receive the keys and other necessary documents that you will use in moving into our home,so after the payment the keys and other documents will be send to your full home address provided in the filling out of your application form via FedEx.So as soon as you receive the keys and documents you can move in at your own convince time. I was just shipped back my keys due to the fact that i lost my mother in a car accident and she has been the one showing the place and that is the reason why i have the keys here with me.

More so,Now that we are on a retreat program over here. Please I want you to note that all we will want is a very honest and caring person, so i will solicit for your absolute understanding and maintenance of this home and want you to treat it as your own,I hope that is taken. The money is not the main problem but i want you to keep it tidy and clean always. I also want you to let me have trust in you as i have always stand on my word. I also want you to take note that payment will be send to me through Western Union Money Transfer grocery or store Nearest to You.

Please feel free to call me on my cell phone : 011-234-802-973-2557 OR +234-802-973-2557

Home Address: 6424 Luzon Ave NW Washington, DC
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Parking: Double Garage
Date Available: Available for move in immediately
Pet Policy: Pet Allowed
Security Deposit $500
Monthly rent : $1000
Total Cost To Move In: $1500

SO IF YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WITH THE RENT APPLICATION FORM FILLED.EVERY OCCUPANT OVER THE AGE OF 18 MUST FILL OUT THE APPLICATION (EVEN IF MARRIED) PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM COMPLETELY.


***RENT APPLICATION FORM***
FIRST NAME:__________?
MIDDLE NAME:__________?
LAST NAME:__________?
PROFESSION:__________?
PHONE:
(CELL)PHONE__________?
(WORK)PHONE__________?
(HOME)PHONE__________?
KIDS_____ (YES/NO), HOW MANY________
PRESENT ADDRESS:_____________________
CITY:_______________
STATE:______________
ZIP CODE:____________
HOW LONG?___________IF RENTING
WHY ARE YOU LEAVING__________?
IF THIS HOUSE IS BEING GIVEN TO YOU,
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING?____________?
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN?______________?
HOW SOON DO YOU INTEND PAYING FOR THE TOTAL MOVE IN COST ?______________________?
HOW SOON DO YOU INTEND TO RECEIVE THE KEYS/DOCUMENTS?______________________?
IF YOU HAVE A PET,
NAME OF PET:_____________?
KIND OF PETS:_____________?
HABITS
DO YOU SMOKE______________ ?
DO YOU DRINK______________?
DO YOU WORK LATE NIGHT?____?

Now we are on a Retreat program here,please I want you to note that all we will want is a very honest and caring person,so i solicit for your absolute understanding and maintenance of our apartment and want you to treat it as your own if rented out to you,I hope this is taken. Look forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file in case of issuing the receipt for you and contacting you.

Thanks and God Bless you
Rev Jacob C Carr
Cell #: 011-234-802-973-2557 OR +234-802-973-2557

[OverDrive]

sounds legit

[FStop7]

Hello Dear

[SchlauCow]

Originally Posted by FStop7

Hello Dear

Why do they always hurt the ones who love them the most?

[JayKay335i]

Call the #.

Only nigerian scammers would think that a fireplace and fenced in backyard fall under included utilities.

[AllydNYC]

Sorry to tell you OP, but it looks like you won't be getting any keys in the mail. I don't like the wording of the email that was sent to you.. seems fishy.

[HoustonGuy]

Originally Posted by AllydNYC

Sorry to tell you OP, but it looks like you won't be getting any keys in the mail. I don't like the wording of the email that was sent to you.. seems fishy.

What? seriously? He's getting keys.

[SchlauCow]

Originally Posted by AllydNYC

Sorry to tell you OP, but it looks like you won't be getting any keys in the mail. I don't like the wording of the email that was sent to you.. seems fishy.

Hmmm, can you elaborate? What seems fishy?

[OEMconcept]

[06BMW325i]

where do i send security deposit

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by AllydNYC

Sorry to tell you OP, but it looks like you won't be getting any keys in the mail. I don't like the wording of the email that was sent to you.. seems fishy.

Nothing gets by you

[Vanity]

This place looks like a shit hole.




Plus, your neighbors are black.

[pmeloche]

Only one word: Nigeria. Nuff said. Run, run away fast.

[Buegie]

lol, when will scammers realize that they have a better chance of looking legit if they keep their emails shorter instead of writing a novel each time

[JayKay335i]

Its more of when will scammers realize that "Nigerian Scammer" is in Websters Dictionary.

[CollinsE90]

A Nigerian scammer is currently fleeing after scamming $100 million dollars here in the US, people fall for it

They arent as stupid as people think

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

A Nigerian scammer is currently fleeing after scamming $100 million dollars here in the US, people fall for it

They arent as stupid as people think

I disagree. They are as stupid as people think. Other people are just as stupid to fall for it. Just like phishing scams and telemarketers stealing your identity. For every stupid scam there are people stupid enough to fall for it.

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by JayKay335i

I disagree. They are as stupid as people think. Other people are just as stupid to fall for it. Just like phishing scams and telemarketers stealing your identity. For every stupid scam there are people stupid enough to fall for it.

He rented high end hotels, bought expensive cars and watches, had multiple computers running multiple IP addresses, had multiple pre-paid burners, and still cant be found. He isnt stupid

[CollinsE90]

FORTUNE -- A luxury suite at the W Hotel in Dallas is as good a place as any to conquer the world. At least it seemed that way in 2007 when Tobechi Onwuhara got the crew together. They'd meet there often, seven or eight of them. Some had nicknames from the Ian Fleming lexicon: C, Q, and E. Others were called Mookie, Orji, Uche. They would spread out on designer sofas and at the wet bar, open three-ring binders, and fire up laptops with hard-to-trace wireless cards. On a nearby table there'd be prepaid cellphones with area codes taped to them. A phone for Southern California. A phone for Northern Virginia. A phone for any place Onwuhara had found the "good money."

In those days, the good money wasn't hard to find. The housing boom had flooded the country with capital. Lenders were making promiscuous loans to unsophisticated borrowers. It was an ideal environment for Onwuhara, 27, a brilliant, pug-faced visionary who favored True Religion jeans and Ed Hardy shirts. Looking out over the neon skyline of downtown Dallas, it was easy for the crew to believe his assurances: He'd make them rich. When the sun glinted off one of his $100,000 diamond-encrusted Audemars Piguet watches, who could doubt it? Every few months he would buy a new Maserati or Bentley. He owned expensive properties in Miami, Dallas, and Phoenix. He even had a secret love condo in the W, where scantily clad women visited in such numbers that one bellhop became convinced that the first-generation Nigerian-American was a porn director.

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The truth was very different. In his ancestral homeland, Onwuhara might have been a chief. In America he became one of the world's most successful cyberscammers, a criminal genius who used his talents to filet a poorly regulated banking and credit system. In less than three years Onwuhara stole a confirmed $44 million, according to the FBI, which believes the total may be anywhere from $80 million to $100 million. All he needed was an Internet connection and a cellphone.

Onwuhara called it "washing." He'd set up a boiler room in a fancy hotel (the Waldorf-Astoria was another favorite) to wash information on wealthy victims. Then he'd wash bank accounts. One group in his crew would do online research using databases and websites to harvest names, dates of birth, and mortgage information. They'd build profiles of victims for a second group, who would call banks posing as account holders. The callers cadged security information and passwords. Then Onwuhara would breach the accounts and wire funds from them to a network of money mules he had established in Asia. The money would be laundered and wired back to his accounts in the U.S.

"I call it modern-day bank robbery," says FBI special agent Michael Nail. "You can sit at home in your PJs and slippers with a laptop, and you can actually rob a bank."

Onwuhara specialized in hitting home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), the reservoirs of cash that banks make available to homeowners. Once Onwuhara gained access to a HELOC, he could siphon out vast sums in seconds. His weapon was persuasion. It got him enough money to start building a colonnaded fortress in Nigeria; enough to gamble at the high-stakes tables in Vegas casinos all night. Even his accomplices appear not to have known how much he was really pulling down -- not even his beautiful fiancée, Precious Matthews.

"He was playing all of us," says Paula Gipson, a member of the crew. "The banks, us, Precious, everybody."

Conversations with Gipson and other Onwuhara associates, interviews with his family and with investigators, and hundreds of pages of court documents reveal a digital scavenger of extraordinary creativity and guile. Onwuhara orchestrated his swindles using information about homeowners that is widely available online. In fragments, this information is innocuous. When assembled properly, it can be used like an electronic skeleton key to get into almost any credit account. Onwuhara needed only a few short years to rack up an illicit fortune. And he's still at large.

[NYCGP]

American Dream baby...

[JayKay335i]

One smart guy playing the system that helped destroy it self doesn't make them smart. It was 1 guy, as stated, that played everybody from the banks to his own crew and fiance. For every 1 smart man stealing money there are millions of moronic scammers. I'm not saying that this one guy isn't smart. I'm saying that as a whole they are not.

[ABQ325i]

A current scam is to find an empty property, list in on Craigslist and arrange to show it as many times as possible in one day. They break in, change the locks show it and take as many deposits and 1st months rents as possible then disappear.