The man from Summer Ville Reservations

February 7, 2009

Today we received an enquiry for our cottage. Not that this is a noteworthy event, we get quite a few. But this one was different. A certain Jack Haggin was profiling himself and his business called Summer Ville Reservations. He acts as an agent for people looking for accommodations abroad:

“I am Mr Jack Haggin,a reservation agent who specialise in getting accommodation for people visiting certain countries.I have a client who would be coming your way very soon and he’ll be spending a minimum of 14 nights.”

Hmmm… notice the “quirky style” and the poor punctuation? Yeah… I was suspicious as well. He rambles on about his guests and even asks about the distance to the nearest church as his guests are church going folk:

“NB: I will like to know the distance of the nearest church to the lodge,because my clients are devoted Christians and they will want to go to the church services while they are spending their stay with you.”

Well, a bit of browsing on the internet (…Google is your friend!…) confirmed what I already suspected. It’s a scam… What they do is the following. They book with you and make a payment by credit card. Then they cancel the booking and ask for a refund. You refund, only to find out that their initial credit card payment was fraudulent. A nice little scheme

“My client will check in by last week of May.{May 27th- June 10th}so kindly get back in touch with me within the shortest time possible.I will look forward to hearing from you,and i hope we can do business together in the nearest future.Bye and God bless.”

Yeah, sure!!! For a second I was tempted to scam the scammer. Remember the email scams that were around a couple of years ago? The prince of Zumumbu dying and his son looking for a bank account to conveniently park $16.000.000 excessive cash? Check out 419eater.com, a website dedicated to scamming the scammers in this world. I decided I could not be bothered with this moron….

Nevertheless, be warned about these people!

Posted by roger | Filed Under Blog 

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One Response to “The man from Summer Ville Reservations”

  1. S cURRIE on February 12th, 2009 17:17

    Pleased to read this.. I too got a similar email.. via Aboutbritain.com

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