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nicolletdesign
17 June 2008, 18:12
This rather hilarious email came to me on my request for office space on Craigslist.

Reply-To: thonest82@yahoo.com
From: Tim Honest <thonest82@yahoo.com>
To: ME
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I HAVE A PLACE IN MINNEAPOLIS

Hi,

My name is Tim.I am in my early age of 50s and I am an european . I come
to the states often mostly for business purposes because I deal mostly in
Furniture. I furniture to stores in the states and europe . Infact that is
my family business cos we are from france . I bought a house last year in
the states cos i love it there .It is peaceful and with a loving
neighbourhood.


Unfortunately my Mother passed away on the 7th of May 2006 and as the only
son in my family i have to go and take care of the family business back in
France and i realised that it will be very difficult to supply goods to my
clients again in the United states while am away and it will definitely
cost me alot to come over to receive payments cos they pay mostly in
checks and money orders .


Running the business from there it will be difficult and will be
impossible especially the aspect of payment and i dont also want to lose
my clients or customers there . So what i intend doing is that i am
looking for some one to stay at my house free of charge. I dont want to
sell the house cos i just bought it and i will have all the rest papers by
June but i have ALL the keys now. I am simply looking for someone that is
honest and trustworthy and clean for two reasons:


1. to maintain the house when i am away and
2.To help me receive payments from my clients within the USA on my behalf
in his/her name and have it cashed cos they pay mostly checks and money
orders and have the funds wired to me here in France thru money gram
transfer/western union transfer . You dont have to pay me for the
accommodation. its just for the purpose of keeping my business going on in
the United state.and if you wanna keep this assignment as a job let me
know so i can allocate 10% on each payment that you receive if at all you
dont wanna live in the house or if you are far from the house.


The house is a great one,living room,bedrooms,bathroom,parking space e.tc
furnished as well . If you want i can email you more pictures and if you
are interested i will send the keys to you via courier so you can go and
see the house. It is a very lovely house and there is no way you wont like
it.


If you are interested in handling my business in the state and keeping the
house neat, please send me your full name and address with your phone
number and also for me to be able to no how far the place is from your
present residential place.I am back in France. you send back your response
to my personal email:(thonest82@yahoo.com)
I've been hard hearing for 4 yrs so i won't be able to make phone
conversations but i can always email you anytime.

Thanks

Tim.



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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Honest <thonest82@yahoo.com>
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Subject: I HAVE A PLACE IN MINNEAPOLIS
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FW Admin
17 June 2008, 19:44
The telling line from the email header you quoted:


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Which resolves to...

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