Does this sound legit?

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Since this thread is still going, I'll add a story...

A few years ago, I tried to find someone to take over my end of an apartment lease, when I finished school (originally the lease was scheduled to end when I finished school, but after changing roommates, they forced us to extend it).

So anyhow, among some legit emails, I got one from a woman in London. She was apparently moving to the US in a few weeks, and was looking for a place to live. Some research was done, because she mentioned getting an IT job in a nearby area (about 10 miles away), which is huge for IT stuff.

It started to sound more odd when she mentioned she'd be shipping her car (a new BMW, which she said she'd even let me use), as well as all her furniture (wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a new bed when you get here?).

I played along with it for a while, and eventually she said she'd mail me a check to cover her expenses for moving in. I was supposed to deposit it in my account, and then pay for her stuff to get shipped. Kind of odd.

So a couple days later, a priority FedEx envelope arrived, fresh from Nigeria. I threw it in the trash, and that was the end of it.

I was glad that I at least scammed them out of the $20 or $30 that it cost them to mail me the forged forms.