Complaint Review: Ronald Lesly - London Select State/Province

Check SCAM involving Ronald Lesley


Reporting a rental request received from  www.homeaway.com

We received a request to rent from a Ronald Lesley.  [email protected]
It was suspicious as he is from London and is non-committal on his  
dates.

The story was his company will pay for the rental.

Tried to call him the London number of  "see below"   is not a working  
number all the london area codes begin with "2"

Hello,
I am interested in the house, i will need your Full Name, Address,
Phone Number  and Total Amount so that the check will be issued and
mailed out from the company since they are sponsoring this vacation
payment will be made in US dollars.(please no P.O Box), so that UPS
wont find it difficult to deliver the check to you.

Regards
Ronald Lesly
153 Wardour Street. London. W1F 8WN
+447035974140


I responded:   Provided my physical address.  Asked for a call, no call.

Ronald,

Which dates are you going to take?   Nov 9-16?   We have dates in  
October.    You can call me if you wish to discuss. 

I looked at the flights and was amazed that the airfare is the same  
from London to Kona as from Denver to Kona , what a great value. ~  
$800 on United. For the November dates.  The web site has today is  
the last day for those fares.

The total cost is $1702.89 which includes the $500 damage deposit  
which will be return shortly after checkout.
Please accept the reservation on line from the web link in the  
contract.  I will send again shortly.
Please provide the full names of all guests that will stay in the  
condo.


Best regards,




The address provided in London when google'd  Looks like a check scam.

Law Firm Loses $400000 to Scammers (ASIABIZBLOG)
... 153 Wardour Street. London. W1F 8WN. (+) +44 704 574 7799.  
Attention: Counsel,. We the management of Jinan Haohua Industry, Co.  
Ltd, require your legal representation for our North American  
Customers. Jinan Haohua Industry, Co. ...
www.asiabizblog.com/archives/2009/06/law_firm_loses.htm
Attorney Email Scams: June 2009
... Nothing new to see here. Just the names have been changed. I do  
enjoy the cryptic business they are in: chemical. I am "inclined to  
commence talks as soon as possible Jinan Haohua Industry, Co. Ltd 153  
Wardour Street. London ...
lawyerscam.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html


Got this today:


Hi ,
I got a confirmation from head office that the check has been sent to
you but their is a
little problem,the car rental fee was included in the home rental
amount that was sent to
you,please i will need you to do me a favour, help me send the balance
of the check as soon
as you cash it to the car rental service via western union or money
gram so my movement can be arranged as soon as they get the money to
make my trip a success, the car rental service are to pick me from the
airport and take care of all my movement around and through out my
stay. do you know any western union or money gram around you?

Kind Regards
Ronald Lesly


This is the confirmation letter that this IS a scam and of course I  
would NEVER send the money back.  Expect it will be a bogus cashiers check that can take US banks weeks to figure out. They need a physical address as UPS will not deliver to a PO Box and they do not use US mail as to avoid mail fraud.