[Sam8110]

I am currently looking for a place to live in edinburgh. This guy is advertising a room close to the centre for £300 a month. The photo's currently show a pink bedroom and matching furnishings. His email is twhitmore156@yahoo.co.uk He was very insistant that i pay the requested deposit of £350 BEFORE he would let me even view the place. Said that he was very busy, had been let down before and wanted some form of security. He knew that i had the day off so was fully flexible on time to view the place, said he was working all day but still had the time to send numerous emails to me throughout the late morning and early afternoon requesting the deposit and arguing with me when i refused, always becoming more insistant.

While i can't guarantee that this guy is dodgy, it seems very suspicious to me, please just be careful.

[montyzuma]

how did he want paid?

if its western union def a scam

[Sam8110]

He never mentioned how he wanted paid and i haven't heard from him since. The only reason i'm not 100% sure it's a scam is that Western Union wasn't mentioned, everything else didn't seem right, i was just waiting for that, was the only thing missing.

[montyzuma]

i would never pay money before viewing
sounds well dodgy

[Sam8110]

I totally agree mate. When he first mentioned it and i said no i thought no more of it, then he got more insistant and i was sat thinking, do i have MUG written on my forehead. Gotta wonder how many people have done it though and never seen the cash again. It seems that there's more and more dodgy people on Gumtree. I sold a few things about 3 months ago and had 3 different people saying that they were abroad and could they send me a cheque for £10,000, i take out what i wanted for the item (none of them were over £100) and forward the outstanding in a personal cheque of mine. I know it's free to post, but they need to keep an eye on it

[montyzuma]

i think they do

but as you say its free to post and free
to answer

what you were offered is a
cheque overpayment scam

(google it)
used for anyone renting property or selling a car

[saffa33]

I have just had a similar response from

twhitmore156@yahoo.co.uk

I will see If there is anything I can do to stop this Cretan. I will try to look at the age of this problem and see if there is anything I can do.

The Ad reference is 48970015

[saffa33]

It seems the ad has been removed....