Late last week, homeowners reported a flurry of calls from +18727630519 promising rental deals and asking for upfront security deposits via mailed checks. The pattern matches a classic vacation‑rental check scam: a fake lease, a request for a cashier’s check, and a push to ship the payment quickly. Never send money or personal banking details until you’ve verified the renter through the official platform’s messaging system and reviewed their identity documents. If a caller pressures you for a check, hang up, block the number, and flag the profile to Airbnb, VRBO, or HomeAway. Report the number to the FTC and your local consumer‑protection agency.
Upon receiving an email with suspicious language, including the word 'gonna', it raised red flags.
I received this call today and have reported it to VRBO, which has flagged it as spam.
It appears to be the same Vrbo scam, identifiable by the caller's apparent non-native English skills
This appears to be a scam, as the individual claimed a check was delivered, and I wish the perpetrator could be tracked down.
Similar experiences have been reported, with the individual in question attempting to deceive by claiming a check was delivered and inquiring about personal details.
I got a message on VRBO from somebody claiming to be Frank Lampard, thanks for the warning!
I just recived this on VRBO from Frank Lampard, thanks for posting
Recently, I got a inquiry about my vacation rental from someone who claimed to be Dave and provided this number, it was the same wording as the message from homeaway, I'm glad I did some researsh and found this site!
Sending the envelope and check to the Postal Inspectors would have been a more effective approach to track down the individual responsible.
Despite beeing aware of this scam, I decided to play along and asked him to send a bogus check to a neutral adress, where I could posible collect it if it arived. He ended up spending his money on USPS next day shipping and tracking, and now I have a keeepsake check made out to "Adik and Iama Sphinkstier". I then blew him up on his VBR account and plan to share his number with every telemarketer I can find.
recieved identical request, offering vacation, seems like a scam, alot of warnings
Today, I encountered the same request, with identical wording, indicating the scammer is still active with this number.
Someone tried to rent me a house, i signed the lease via email and then they asked me to send a $700 security deposit to them via walmart, wollmart to be exect.
Currently, this number is being exploited by a scammer targeting vacation rentals on platforms like AirBnB and VRBO/Homeaway, attempting the classic Cashier Check scam.