Scams everywhere....

Well, my search for a roommate on roommates.com has taught me that there are indeed, scams everywhere. Right now what I've been running into is a string of (typically female) "applicants" that claim to be highly educated individuals who are born and raised in English speaking countries and do all kinds of wondrous humanitarian work all over the globe.

Problem is, for being native born they don't seem to have any sort of grasp on the English language. Now I admit, I'm a horrible speller. But an Australian born Pathologist raised in Ontario CA stringing together a sentence like

"i am so much contented with the room and will appreciate if you can just remove the ad. from the website and rent the room to me."

good lord... If you read the entire email you can't help be reminded old B grade Japanese sci-fi movies... A couple of black and white Japanese kids running around the streets of Tokyo gleefully proclaiming that playing ball would be "very pleasing to me".

The best part is if you bother responding to the email. They immediately tell you the good news that their employer has given them $4,800 (or so) to move in and all they need is your back acct.# to deposit the money... Hmm, are they going to be making with drawls to some where in Africa the minute they have all the info they need? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaw...

Ah well, here's hoping I find some people that are legitimately looking for a place to live.