Same game, different names. Now it's "Wang Tao" and the number is for his attorney, Edward Brown.

Sigh...

They will overnight the check and it will be for additional funds that they want to keep at the title company and have them cut the check back after closing.

"Got an email from Otake Iwao claiming to want to buy property anywhere in SC.  I sent him some listing to look at and in 5 minutes he picked one and wanted to buy it unseen and wanted a bunch of information on where his deposit would be deposited.  He had an account manager and said he wanted funds available before he arrived in 4 weeks."I received the same email on May 27. I am a Realtor as well. Definitely a SCAM! Watch out!

Yup came to me through Trulia this guy or team of guys used the name "Wu Qian a Japan origin" funny enough-many misspellings and grammatical errors-dead give away just like the Nigerian Scammers wanted to buy $500k of property sight unseen...thank god for google and this site-had our broker and attorney fooled...

"Got an email from Otake Iwao claiming to want to buy property anywhere in SC.  I sent him some listing to look at and in 5 minutes he picked one and wanted to buy it unseen and wanted a bunch of information on where his deposit would be deposited.  He had an account manager and said he wanted funds available before he arrived in 4 weeks."

I received the same email on May 27. I am a Realtor as well.

Definitely a SCAM! Watch out!

Received the same email as above, Mr Iwao wanting to purchase property here in AZ between 400,000 - 600,000K.
Contacted me through Trulia, When something sounds too good to be true, it is.
Be careful