Here's A New Twist to Watch Out For

You need to be careful  when dealing with any potential clients by e-mail as are a clever bunch -- as in this example.


The other day I received an e-mail from a Mr/Mrs Linda Steve (sent to undisclosed recipients)  offering $400.00 to clean their apartment before they moved back from Ireland.


I responded to this by asking for more information. And they responded to this by  thanking me for responding so quickly and again offering me $400.00 by  certified cheque or money order.


All I have to do is provide them with my full name, address and phone number.


I don't know what they are up to. Possibly they want me to start providing personal information bit by bit. Don't know. It is intriguing.


I have written back to them asking for the name of their landlord and the address of the apartment so I can let their building manager at tis end know what is going to be happening next week first.






The whole this is very strange as you would think that the moving company they say is orchestrating this move for them  with would contact a professional cleaning company  to handle the cleaning instead of broadcasting a requesting to "undisclosed recipients" over the internet.


Most moving companies handling this type of move for people who are out of the country  would handle the entire operation -- including  finding the cleaning company, supervising the cleaning, and then paying the cleaner. The mover would then add this expense to their bill.


I'll let you know how this one turns out. This offer has me more than a little  curious -- and concerned.  Since so many residential cleaners are women -- and many people are desperate for money nowadays  is this some scheme to entice people to give out their personal address and phone number?