Jennifer Cole, Roommates.com MONEY SCAM!!! ROOMMATES.COM Internet
Beware if you search for a roommate on roommates.com. BEWARE OF JENNIFER COLE OR JOY ORME AND MANY COUNTLESS OTHERS!! This is the email I received from "jennifer cole" .....
Hello Julie,
Thanks for the mail and i appreciate your efforts towards this .I'm on roomates.com I am interested in renting your room.I will need more info from you regards to the place and also i need to know the deposit that i will be paying before i arrive,,i am currently based in Amsterdam,Holland now with my mom because she works for a missionary school and she is posted down here.I want to move over to the US,Kindly get back to me ASAP with the deposit i need to pay because i will like to pay for the deposit before my arrival and i will like to know the total amount i will be paying for a whole year but i will like to pay the deposit first of all,I do part time modelling and also i have finished with my masters programme.I do model and i have job offers already in the US,I have my masters degree in accounting.My job will be based on contracts so i do not have to go to work all the time,I will only need to go to work 3 times in a week.
Well, i think we will get along well because i"m a easy going person,like i said i dont do drugs or smoke but i drink only occasionally.I will be glad if you have a Yahoo messenger mine is jaycole_2009@yahoo.com so we can chat and talk more and get to know each other better, its free.Send me a email on jaycole_2009@yahoo.com.
.Please kindly get back to me ASAP.Hope to hear from you soon.
JENNIFER
These people send you an overpayment and then they ask you to the rest of the money back to them. Lucky, I did not fall for her scam and I found out another person these people tried to victimize on here.... thanks so much!!!!
Smartconsumer
san antonio, Texas
U.S.A.
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Edgeman
Chico,California,
U.S.A.
The logistics are what's important here...
#2Consumer Comment
Fri, January 09, 2009
Posting the names of the people does no good because the scammers use multiple aliases. They also use a number of different websites including roommates.com and Craigslist.
It's better to focus on how they go about scamming people. The key is someone in a far away location willing to send money without having seen the item/location/whatever is being offered. There will almost always be an overpayment and a request to send the remainder of the money through MoneyGram or Western Union. Once the money is retrieved, it can be virtually impossible to track down whoever scammed you.
I'm glad that the OP didn't fall for it.