Hello everyone,
My name is T I live in the Detroit area. I just wanna share my experience with others. Bottom line I think I am about to get scammed
but I will not let them do that to me, may be 'cause I'm smart, may be 'cause I am lucky, may be 'cause of this forum. Anyhow, long story short; I have an ad on roommates.com since I am looking for a roommate. Among the emails I got one from England. A dark skin very nice lady emailed me saying that she is interested in renting out the room. Finally we agreed. She is supposedly coming to Detroit for a month of vacation. C'mon no one would come to Detroit for a month of vacation, may be Miami, Virginia Beach, NY,... but not Motown. Don't take me wrong, even though there are a lot of nice places in Metro area of Det, but, I would not think a tourist would spend a whole month here. Anyways, I felt some was fishy. The lady said she would send me a payment and I have to return the rest of it. I agreed I did not receive anything yet. But, she asked me to keep her updated if I receive payment. Also, today another lady presumably from London sent me an email (I even chatted with her on Yahoo) she is asking me about the room... she said she is coming to work and want to start her new life in the US here. So far I am playing along just for the fun of it. I assume they will send me a fat but fake check to cash and send them the rest. I'll end up telling them you've been punked
Since I felt the whole story is fishy I did a research online and got this web site which assured me more that I am about to be scammed but no damages will be made hopefully. They are wasting their time and they will waste postage fees soon. So, since Roommates.com Nigerian scam has been revealed to everyone this evil people are trying to switch mask saying that they are from London. Be on the watch if this happens to you ask for western union transaction or moneygram with the exact amount no extras.