Just got an offer for someone to buy my old apartment via email...WTF????

They may have a computer program or something that's doing the connect the dots for them & it's not smart enough to catch the Apt3 thing. As for what could they gain. Well that depends on what they follow up with after you reply back to them. They may have set you up to pay some phoney realator or inspector to come by, or to buy some service or repair from some scam contractor before the deal would go through. There's plenty of ways to go with it if they get you to foolishly follow along. Heck it could be something as simple as getting you to show them the house, they distract you & then start robbing the place. My grandmother in law almost fell for a con. A salesman came to her house to show her some oriental rugs. While the salesman had her attention in the front his accomplice slipped in the back. The salesman even used the rugs to block the view whenever his partner needed to slip by a door in view. Maw got lucky though. Her dog caught the guy.

Maybe it is a breeding ground for scammers. The oldhead scammers are attracted to the games, most likely teaching the next generation the tricks of the trade, so to speak. But come on, this one didn't take any further research than they already did. The address was listed similar to 410 Kasota, Apt #36. More often than not, the building owner doesn't live in the building he/she owns, and if they do, they usually pick one of the 1st few apartments to live, if not Apt #1 itself! If they did enough research to find the correct address, why didn't they look and see it was an apartment??? And not a low numbered one at that? And as I said to a previous commenter, lets say I did own a house, and I was dumb and went for this mess, what benefit does the scammer get out of this?

Actually that's not a question that I ask too often. I market online, and I'm one of the few dummies that uses their primary email to do so. My email is all over the place it's not hard to pick up.

I've gotten countless scam emails myself, but never as weird as this one. I am actually just little bit curious as to see how this one would work out in favor of the scammer. I mean, the scammer would have to send a check or some form of payment before a person would sign over the deed; and if they sent a fake check the signing of the deed could be reversed pretty easily....