A Rozario is a Rozario is a Rozario.... Unless it's not.

(Profound apologies to the shade of Gertrude Stein!)I thought the case of the mysterious Rozario Lorenzo had been laid to rest with my previous encounters but, lo and behold, a few days later I received another missive ~March 29, 2010Dear Quirked Eyebrow,I'm very glad I found your blog. The only record online that the person I'm dealing with is a scam is the email address s/he used that is listed

This which we call a Rozario, by any other name would smell as stinky

(With profound apologies to the shade of William Shakespeare...)So….A few weeks ago, I got an email from K saying that she had dealings with Rozario Lorenzo ~ rozario.lorenzo@yahoo.com aka rozario_lorenzo@yahoo.com ~ and felt that it was all too dodgy especially when Rozy was extremely insistent on using on Western Union, fading rapidly in the woodwork when K said she wanted to have a friend

Scammails A - E 2010

075010marquis@gmail.com (Marquis Granny)




A
a3a1273lam@yahoo.com
aaaarron009@ymail.com
aaaayyy97@yahoo.com
aadbiel@gmail.com (Adrina)  
aakellyswuw@rocketmail.com (Aaron Lam; ph: +447045730253,+447011173785)
aanunimofe@gmail.com
aanuowotopo@yahoo.com
aanuirede@yahoo.com
aanuireoluwa@yahoo.com
aanunimofeoluwa@yahoo.com
aanuoluwamaaabo@yahoo.com
aanuoluwanimofe@yahoo.com
aanutotayo@

Welcome to 2010...

Hi all ~ welcome to a brand new year and the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Some kinda ride, eh?This January is also the start of the third year of this blog. Who knew that chemotherapy induced insomnia would have turned out to be so useful? (I'm much better now, thanks.) Sometimes friends ask me why I still do it and, I suppose, it's because I can. It may sometimes be a bit

He's making a list and checking it twice...

I suppose if you're writing the same scamvert over and over again, creativity takes a bit of a beating so I'm chucking in examples of ads/lists that are repeated ad nauseum. If you see any of 'em in the ad you're considering, keep looking....This is also to remind you to be a little picky about doing your homework while home hunting ~ if I can find scamverts like these without even really trying,

Constructing castles in the air, no doubt...

There's so many landlords transferring to Nigeria to work that I am surprised to hear that they have unemployment problems there. Except in the crusader and missionary fields ~ they have *got* to be up to their hindquarters in those by now.I am so sorry for late response,it was due to my job,i have been busy here working..Good to hear from you and thanks for having interest in my place and is

Things you can do to help...

This came in my mail today and I thought I would post it cuz it's a pretty basic question:How could I contribute to the e-mail list of "nefarious characters"? Because I am looking for a flat in Geneva I have found some.I tried sending this response but it came back as undeliverable so here it is:Post them in the comments section as the information shows up in search engines. And, sooner or later

Let me hold that for you ~ Part Two

Once again Intrepid Renter has flushed out something interesting enough to post here.I think we've already established in our prior post that PayPal, Gumtree and Findaproperty.com aren't going to be the kinda resources to hold your money while you wait for an opportunity to inspect the apartments expecting to receive the keys from an absentee scamlord. Nor is it wise to think that wiring funds

Picture this...

There are some photos used by scammers I see over and over and over again which I'm just kinda sick of seeing at all. I thought I would post a few of 'em just for the heck of it.I'm also throwing in the odd one from current scam ads before I get tired of seeing them too. :)If you find yourself looking for an apartment and see these photos, flag the ad for deletion and keep looking. I don't

Let me hold that for you!

Intrepid Renter was at it yet again last week (he's such a scamp!) and received a response from yet another of our would be 'scamlords' regarding a place in Halifax.I may have sprained a brain cell or two trying to follow the convoluted sell job Scamlord was extolling but, thanks to Intrepid Renter's posting, you can now check it out for yourself...This is the ad:* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

STOP! DON'T DO IT!!!

Folks, sorry for the flashy thingie but I think that people really need to be aware of this and to think about what sort of personal information they are depositing on the internet or sharing with total strangers.Intrepid Renter wrote me today to say: 'Here's an interesting new scam. New to me, at least.'He had sent an inquiry regarding a rental ad on Craigslist asking for a bit more information

Scammer Bios N - Z 2009

Everybody has a story to tell and those who are looking to squirm their way into our hard-earned funds aren't any different ~ just a tad imaginative at times. As you make your acquaintance with them, feel free to share the information and we will work hard to highlight their endeavours for the benefit of the global community.Please keep in mind that there are quite likely real people with these

Scammer Bios A - M 2009

Everybody has a story to tell and those who are looking to squirm their way into our hard-earned funds aren't any different ~ just a tad imaginative at times. As you make your acquaintance with them, feel free to share the information and we will work hard to highlight their endeavours for the benefit of the global community.Please keep in mind that there are quite likely real people with these

Scammails U - Z 2009

U


uaed_beydounsuher@yahoo.com
udolf.ward@yahoo.co.uk
udu_edib@yahoo.com
uksms@yahoo.co.uk (Gordon Moore)
ulianeniepmann93@yahoo.com
umfree01@yahoo.com
unerh8j4@yahoo.com
uniqueapts2@gmail.com
upfrontwaywa@yahoo.com
upson.holmes@yahoo.com
uriah.ward@yahoo.co.uk
use_apart01@yahoo.com
usher_man1@yahoo.com
ussher.kitty@yahoo.co.uk
ut_bryola@yahoo.com
uwe_vie@yahoo.com
uy_vemju@yahoo.com


V

Scammails P - T 2009

Ppablofotan96@googlemail.compablowood0@gmail.compadimi82@yahoo.com pagecottage@yahoo.com paice.james@yahoo.co.uk paisley.rthonian@yahoo.co.uk pakiea@yahoo.com (Anu Pakie; ph: +447031878634)pampascal@hotmail.compankaj_nagpal2004@yahoo.co.inpabanuphrasad@ymail.compalaceofpeace@hotmail.com (John Makin)palma.dinunno@gmail.com mpalmer.drnick@yahoo.co.uk pameladawson147@

Scammails K - O 2009

Kkabasasasasa@yahoo.comkadaraopapo7878@yahoo.comkadunarent@yahoo.com (Norman Hush; ph: +447024097532)kallekergel@yahoo.comkamasedada92@yahoo.comkamikaze_we@in.comkamsat80@yahoo.comkamsonlockwood@yahoo.com (Kamson Lockwood)kane.kelly77@yahoo.comkantduck@yahoo.comkaren.collins14@yahoo.comkaren.collins93@yahoo.comkarenfironzen@yahoo.comkarenfisher08@gmail.comkaren.scot02@

You might well ask...

By the time people ask me the same question more than once, I start thinking that I might want to answer them in the blog so that everyone gets the same information. C-J sent me these questions in an email the other day and it made sense (to me anyway) to answer them here.I am thinking about renting an apartment in Melbourne and I googled the mail addresses I’ve been keeping contact with. I

What we're up against...

Quite often a poster will express the opinion that the person behind whatever rent scam they notifying us about should be stopped. There's no argument on that point but it isn't that easy.I've said before that I think that Ruedeseine at http://parishousingscamwatch.wordpress.com/ has a good rent scam blog and I want to share a couple of links to articles that are posted there just as something

The things ya see...

Wandering around is seldom boring ~DKK3000 / 2br - GLOOMING TWO BEDROOMS APARTMENT IS AVAILABLE FOR RENT. (COPENHAGEN) - Doesn't that seem like it should come with its own personal ghost story? Glooming ~ sounds like something MacBeth would come riding out of...** WERE SORRY SMOKING ALLOWED * - I'm sorry smoking is allowed too ~ I'm having a hard enough time staying off the evil weed. *sigh*well

Let's keep the 'real' in realty...

While being involved in life, I hadn't been watching the ads for a couple of weeks ~ well, not terribly closely anyway. (For those who have suggested I get a life, I have one ~ what I don't have is a television which leaves me *lots* of time to noodle about.)Anyway, I noticed a whole series of ads in Amsterdam that contained this phrasing (with variables in the leasing amount):LEGAL contract by