So...I've accepted a summer internship position at PR firm located in the SOMA (South of Market) of San Francisco. It is an amazing opportunity, so I jumped on it. Obviously, moving to a new city requires a new living situation. And what a pain in the ass this has been.
The intern coordinator told me that past interns have had the most luck subletting through Craigslist. I'm a little skeptical at this suggestion (anyone seen Lifetime's "Craigslist Killer"?), but I get on the website and start contacting a few people.
I am immediately drawn to an ad about a lovely apartment posted by what seems to be a lovely Christian Reverend who is currently on assignment in Africa doing mission work (how sweet!). We begin to correspond. Rev. Patterson soon feels that I am a trustworthy person who he feels comfortable renting his lovely apt to. He will just need me to wire $950 through Western Union as a security deposit. Hm. I ask to see pictures of the apartment, of course, and it just goes downhill from there.
The pictures are of some penthouse sweet, that he swiped off of a random website--and they clearly do not match the square footage he provided.
So....the fake rev with the fake pics is trying to scam me. I email this "fake person" telling him how despicable of a human being he is. Posing as a Christian Reverend? Deplorable. I also tell him I have reported him to the authorities (oooh watch out!). He simply responds by writing "okay..."
Anyway I move on. The next day I receive another email from a property I made an inquiry on. This time, Rev. Hayes is out of the country doing mission work in the U.K. I tell the jackwagon to keep track of who he has already tried to scam, and to maybe change up his story a bit.
