Cohousing-L Mailing List: possible scam to watch out for

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Our external email account often receives a message that people are 
interested in our community and it's often evident that this note was 
broadcast from the FIC website to all or many communities. I'm okay with 
that, since they may not be very particular geographically.

So, we just got a note from someone who says she and her spouse will be 
returning to the U.S. after several years of working (currently in 
Thailand), is interested in our community, would like to visit this summer, 
and hopes we'll have a house to rent by then. It was probably not directed 
just to us, since neither our community nor our location was mentioned, and 
it contained a number of misspellings.

One of my neighbors felt suspicious that it could be a scam, though it 
seemed normal to me, misspellings and all.  Either way, I wanted to remind 
all good-hearted communitarians to never send money to someone who claims 
to want to rent or buy but for some reason or other, YOU need to send THEM 
some money. No, no, no, don't fall for that!

And now back to your normal program.

  Muriel
  Shadowlake Village Cohousing