What's the scam here?

Beatrice440
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Chamonix, France

What's the scam here?

Hi all

 

Perhaps people can help me understand what is the scam being set up here.

 

We received a message from someone asking about availability for certain months with a story about how they couldn't see our calendar and they didn't have access to a computer, but it was urgent so please can we email them, then they gave an email to get around airbnb's filters. The domain was @sociology.com

 

My wife, not being as cynical as I am sent a short email to the email just saying we had some availability for the months they mentioned.

 

When I looked at the message when I got home later saw it had multiple scam heuristics (urgency, strange story), and I checked the domain and it’s a parked website. The profile had in the meantime been barred by AirBnB for abuse of terms.

 

So the question is, what was being set up here - any ideas? It doesn't seem quite like just an invitation to transact off the platform (which we wouldn't consider anyway).

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