So glad I read this!! "Theodore Smith" wanted me to send him $600.00 for a property in Memphis, TN. Sent the exact same email to me.

I recently was looking for a place to rent in Alexandria Louisiana. I came across a nice house 3 br 2 bath. It was renting for 700 a month with a 600 deposit. I rode by that house multiple times in the am and the pm. There was always a vehicle there in the pm. He claimed it was the ex tenants . I became suspicious and did a little digging, I'm.  a woman after all, and found this site and others...He sendt me the exact email and he was using james Kaiser . I research facebook and linkin ..I'm going to see how long this dummy wants to play ..Little does he know I have also spoken with the owners.

It helped ME. Thank you!!

SCAM. Had ads on craigslist renting out a property. I found this property on other sites asking for much more. He said he had lost a family member and had to move quickly so they decided to rent it out as opposed to selling it and going through the whole waiting process. We emailed for over a week and after we filled out the rental application he sent me this email.

Finally,I have gone through your application details & everything is okay by me to rent my property, i will be doing a check up on you once in 4 months, to see how you are taking care of the place after you moved in & your move in date is okay by me. If anything needs to be repaired, all you have to do is contact me ,if i can get it fixed i will and if not I'll ask you to fix it and you will deduct it from the next month rent or i refund when i come pay you visit! You can as well move out any time, just inform me 30days before your decide.
We are very exited and willing to let you move in our house as soon as decide.i will send the lease agreement paperwork to you. Go through it carefully and subsequently append your signature if you adhere with terms. Return it back to me via email ASAP for us to proceed I already made conclusions on accepting payment for the security deposit this enables me to hold the space for you till whenever you are ready to move in so you move in as soon as you are ready. The package containing the keys and documentations will be delivered to you on a next day delivery Via DHL or EMS Courier Service to the address in the rental application or please where do you want the parcel to be delivered to? Here are the contents of the document that needs to be sent.
1) Entrance and the rooms Keys
2) Paper/Permanent house form
3) The house documentary file.
4) Full Description of the house
5) Payment Receipt.
RE-CONFIRMATION OF THE DELIVERY ADDRESS : RECEIVERS NAME?:_________________ DELIVERY ADDRESS?:_________________ RECEIVERS NUMBER:?_________________

we are ready to mail the keys and documentation to you as soon as your payment has been confirmed, and make sure we secure the place for you.

Call me or Text me on 858-255-1719
Hoping to read back from you.
Regards

The grammar seemed a little off and he was emailing me at 2 am all the time. I searched the number and found a bunch of sites he's on as well as multiple names hes used over the past 3 years - Aliyah, Perry Bock, Ronald Brown, Steve Ronald, James K Kaiser. The property he tried to rent to me was 135 Bridge st. Newton Ma.

I dont know about the rest of you but I caught my husband sex texting with her yesterday. Guess that was her (probably a guy) way to get money out of him. will wait till bank statements to come in to see if he was stupid enough too.

Hi this guy tried to scam me too, thanks to your posts I knew it was a scam before I sent any money...He used the name Steve Ronald with me and tried to rent me a property in Regina.
I hope this thread helps anyone else he targets!

Tried me too

I've been dealing with this Ronald Brown who sent the following email to me today!  He's trying to rent a four bedroom house in Toronto for $1000 with a $600 deposit for the exchange of a lease and keys.  
THIS IS A SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!!!!   Stay away from this guy!!!!  And don't send your money either. Thank god I typed his name and number into Google first!!  A MILLION THANKS to all of you who posted your encounters with this con artist!!!!!!!!  

Finally,I have gone through your application details & everything is okay by me to rent my property, i shall be doing a check up on you once in 4 months, to see how you are taking care of the place after you moved in & your move in date is okay by me.

If anything needs to be repaired, all you have to do is contact me then, if i can get it fixed i will and of not I'll ask you to fix it and you will deduct it from the next month rent or i refund when i come pay you visit! You can as well move out any time, just inform me 30days before your decide. We are very exited and willing to let you move in our house as soon as decide.i will send the lease agreement paperwork to you. Go through it carefully and subsequently append your signature if you adhere with terms. Return it back to me via email ASAP for us to proceed

I already made conclusions on accepting payment for the security deposit this enables me to hold the space for you till whenever you are ready to move in so you move in as soon as you are ready. The package containing the keys and documentations will be delivered to you on a next day delivery Via DHL or EMS Courier Service to the address in the rental application or please where do you want the parcel to be delivered to?

Here are the contents of the document that needs to be sent.

1) Entrance and the rooms Keys
2) Paper/Permanent house form
3) The house documentary file.
4) Full Description of the house
5) Payment Receipt.

RE-CONFIRMATION OF THE DELIVERY ADDRESS :

RECEIVERS NAME?:_________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS?:_________________
RECEIVERS NUMBER:?_________________


we are ready to mail the keys and documentation to you as soon as your payment has been confirmed, and make sure we secure the place for you.

Hoping to read back from you.

Text me 858) 255-1719

Same thing happened to me. He is going by the name Ronald Brown still and supposedly lives in California do to family. He said he will send the keys when he receives the deposit. This one is coming from little oh Alamogordo NM where most people dont even have a clue we exist. SCAM SCAM SCAMMING @SS...Get a life and earn some real money LOSER and stop trying to take hard working peoples money. I hope you get caught and end up in prison.! Dont fall for this scam people ...!

Ronald Brown just tried to scam me also said he had a rental property in Duncan BC,l asked if we could view the home he said we could go look at the property because it is empty but we could'nt go inside because he lives in California and would'nt have a key to show us the place so we drove to property to have a look and thier were cars parked in the drive-way so l e-mailed him back and asked if the property was rented out and he said yes but they would be moving out once he found a suitable renter so l asked if we could make a arrangement with the current tenant to view the property he said no they would be disturbed so my spouse googled the phone number and found alerts about this # being scam artists.Beware they're very smooth

This same.thing just happened to me i confronted them on being a scam artist and they did not reply but before that when tqlking about me sending him moneythe replies were instant.they are réal smooth talkers n try to offer u à deal that is too good to be true Also they r going by The name Ronald Brown and Ronald quintanilla same phone # as snobé

Yup, same thing happened to me only the house I checked out is in Victoria BC. The first email from "Aliyah" gave details of the place including the address of the home. The message she had sent me seemed legitimate and heartfelt. I checked out the place, loved it, and emailed her back with a few more questions. She got back to me without any answers to my questions. She just said that she had reviewed my application form and had chosen me for the rental. The message said that once I sent her the paperwork and deposit, she would send the keys. She also included her phone number and said to text her. I found that message to be oddly impersonal. I found it weird she had never called me by name, didn't answer my questions, didn't want to talk on the phone with me, didn't want a contact here to meet and assess me as a person, she wanted me to blindly send the money, and there were some grammatical errors in her messages that I found odd. I decided to google the phone number and this page popped up!! I had a bad feeling and wasn't going to follow through with it anyway, but this page confirmed it which is why I am adding my story. I reported the ad.

When I called the number back.. It was for google. Which means they either have an ipod or some google account that has a number connected. I have called the company.. emailed another company and will be in touch with RCMP tomorrow.

I had the same thing happen to me. I was told to send them money..and us being stupid and totally not thinking... sent it to them. But the site sent me an email telling me it was fraud..but a little too late. I am suppose to get a key tomorrow..and I just text them asking for the tracking number. I have not heard back and I always do right away. I also found this ad on 2 other sites, none of which were the same price or contact information.

Someone from this number tried scamming me into sending them money for a property they do not even own!! This property was in Regina, it is a house for sale actually and they made a separate ad pretending to rent it out, saying they currently live in texas and after I send them the deposit they will send me the keys ect. This is not real! Hopefully this will help someone else.