Am I just paranoid that I'm getting scammed?

Brad9
Level 1
New York, NY

Am I just paranoid that I'm getting scammed?

Just last week I opened up my July calendar for airbnb. with in 2 days  I have now had 3 seperate requests to book for the whole month of July from 3 females that all are in the 4th year of medical school and coming to NYC for july to do a rotation. 

As I did speak with one of the girls more in depth who had verified phone number email, facebook accounts etc- she did explain that a lot students will do roations in july because residency applications are due in September. That all makes perfect sense, but I have never had 3 almost identical requests from 3 different poeple. 

One of the requests came from a profile names Kimberly, but in her message tells me her name is Megan. Thats when I started getting suspect. Because it reminds me of face book spam bots. 

 

Any suggestions? Has Anyone else seen this before? 

It's probably totally legit.... but what if it's not??? lol

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Vini0
Level 2
Netherlands

I think that's ok that they are coming for same reason. I also had two request for same reasons. May be you can check properly that, is there any event like this is happening in the city. Best of luck.
Michael247
Level 2
San Francisco, CA

My first thing I would do is ask for their reference from a teacher or somebody on the faculty to confirm. They shouldn't have any problem providing this information if they really are what they say they are. If not pass them by!