“Seriously?  I work for the police, it says so right there in my signature.  They’re still trying to sell this?  Seriously?”
-C.

The major project these days is selling my current housing contract to move into the flat where J. and I will be living post-nuptials.  I’ve told my landlords to sell if they can, posted an advertisement on Craigslist and local classifieds, but so far the only inquiries have be blatant scams. 

It’s a common set up: pretend to be interested in something someone is selling, volunteer to send a money order to lock in the deal, send a fake check set up to electronically tap into your victim’s bank account when they try to cash it, steal every penny they have.  You wouldn’t believe how many fraud and theft reports I’ve taken for exactly the same scenario.  Nevertheless, I send out my normal formal response most of these inquiries with my landlord’s information and telling the writer to contact him for more information.  “University Police, Investigations Secretary” is written right beneath my name in my electronic signature.  Still they ask me to send money on to their starving relatives in Uganda, China, and Bolivia! 

I checked the names against our cases, no connections, and deleted them.  Would the universe please stop messing around and send me one person who is legitimately interested in buying my housing contract?!