I just came across a similar listing, and found this post through a search for the email address in question. It has to be a scam, the user I found has 16 listings with identical pictures.
It is very unfortunate that Airbnb, instead of stopping this scam and warning other users, deletes the useful information you posted without looking into it.
The "host" I came across was named Hugo.
If anyone else comes across a listing with the following text, I'd say it's most likely a scam:
"CHECK YOUR DATES with my co-host directly at ..."