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Monte booked my Florida condo for 2 weeks in 2009, saying he wanted to pay in advance (same M.O. as previous contributors, whose stories I wish I had read earlier).  London address. Said his check mistakenly included travel funds, which he wanted me to send via western union to his "travel agent" (individual name, no agency name provided) in Tacoma, WA, saying his travel agent will contact me "as the transaction goes on."  I began feeling the little hairs rise on the back of my neck, but figured there couldn't be much harm in doing it, once his Wells Fargo check clears.  I responded clearly that I would do it once the check had cleared and deposited the check.  That was yesterday. But I still felt uncomfortable, so I googled him and found you all.  Today I went to my bank, opened a new checking account, transferred everything but the amount of his check into the new account.  Now the most I have to lose is the $10 I left in there for a bounced deposit check fee. By next Friday, they feel, we should have a reading on whether it cleared Wells Fargo. It's not enough to know that it cleared my account -- we need to know that Wells Fargo honored it (which is about 1% likely based on what I read here as well as those hairs on the back of my neck). I expect I'll start getting pressure from either the "travel agent" or "Monte" to expedite moving the "travel funds" to Tacoma, beginning Monday but they can chill. I'll continue to watch this page and will let you know as things develop.

I recieved this exact same email.  I did not give him my bank information just my address to send the check.  No check every came.  Did you do the same or did you give him your bank information?  I have tried to contact him several times by email of course but nothing and I have the same number everyone else does.  Is there anything else I should do?
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I just received a message from this person, same phone number but using the name Cristiano Evans. I googled him because his requests were very suspicious from the start. He gave an address in London, which turns out to be the admin. bldg. of a medical school.

Same scam, different name: Rick Conn. Wants to rent our VRBO/HomeAway vacation property for September ...

"Hello, Thanks for getting back to us with the quote,I will book it,
I will make payment with my bank official check. I and my wife concluded to make full payment, so we can have confirmation of booking. Send me the below info.
Full name.
Address   (Not PO Box)
City
Zipcode
State
Home phone
Cell phone.

Immediately i have the above info, I will mail the payment to you.
Afterwards you can send me the confirmation letter and keys. Thanks."

I'm not waiting for the bogus check - I'm sending him this link instead

We received the identical letter as Jon's, but "Rick Conn" has changed his name to "Brian Clay."

When I received this email, it didn't feel right to me. I
Googled this telephone number, 44 7023031826, and all I found were sites such as this one. Dead giveaway. Like Jon, I forwarded this site in response to "Brian's" request.