Not mine, @David126 , but the account of other fellow hosts who trusted a request coming from a potential guest asking nothing but the confirmation that that was "the right listing" to book...
I've heard of many different phishing scams, this one was new to me and to all other hosts I'm in contact with here in Rome. It would be nice if we had a place were to create a list of common scams for all the hosts who want to be updated 🙂
In any case, the problem of response rate posed by @R-0 and shared by @Tanya29 and @Donna37 hasn't been fixed yet (and I do hope it will be solved asap since many Italian hosts got a mail from Airbnb that their account could be suspended because of their law response rate)