I trust this message finds you well. I am writing to ascertain whether your esteemed company offers land surveying services. If so, I would appreciate it if you could kindly provide detailed information regarding the geographic regions your services include. Thank you for your attention to this inquiry. I look forward to your prompt and favorable response. Kind regards, Wayne Hardman.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
I get 2 or 3 of these emails each week.
That is my only guess. I have been getting the same style of emails for a month now, at least 1 a day sometimes 2. All very general and lacking specifics with the only contact information being a generic email, never a known established company's email. My only guess is someone using AI to try and populate a database.
All emails of a style that you would never get from a legitimate prospect seeking your services.
I've gotten 1 of these so far. I remember responding and of course never heard back. I think I'm just gonna delete anything without a signature block/company name going forward.
I've been getting them as well, although not nearly as verbose as yours. More like this:
"This is Zarrah, I'm looking for a Boundary survey and Topographic Survey, what area do you serve?."
For the life of me I can not figure out what the games is.
I'm guessing they are trying to get a response and then try and infect your system with a ransom virus or something else. It's really creepy.
They’re scam emails. You might also see emails with a request for an estimate for an address near you with a tax map # that doesn’t make any sense.
I’ve received dozens of them.
For the life of me I cannot figure out what the game is.
I suspect - they ask for your bank info so they can pay you a retainer by electronic transfer. BOOM! They have your bank info, enough of it at least, and you are screwed. Or...they overpay the retainer (perhaps they claim to be holding a cashiers check for more than the retainer amount) and get you to refund the overage. Then they jerk back the original payment.
I also get these and now ignore them. It's definitely a scam of some sort. As others have said if you reply with an area you serve you will get another email with an APN number. Sometimes the number is incorrect or for a county that you did not indicate you serve. Often times it's accompanied with a question about whether you take credit card. It's either a phishing scam to eventually get you to click a link or download a file. Or it's related to that check deposit overpayment refund scam that has also been discussed here. Key words are "what area do you serve" "kindly" "email address with last name-firstname-numbers@gmail". The funniest of these is when I have them a price of 100k for a 1 lot survey and they asked how to pay. 🤣
I've been getting them for years. Straight to trash. I should tell them I cover the Moon and Mars...
I get about 1 of these per month, though the language isn't as stilted. I replied to a couple of them in case they were legit. The last one, I looked up and the name was of a home builder in a neighboring state, so I thought it might be legit.
Asked him for a property so I could research records to give him an estimate. He identified a parcel a block and a half from my house - a property that seemed unlikely for the parcel division and new homes that were described to me. I contacted the property owner and she was quite surprised that a contactor was proceeding on plans for her property. I asked the "contractor" who he was working with as the landowner's agent and never heard back.
Without having followed any of these beyond the initial inquiry without doing a little due diligence, I don't know what the scam is other than wasting a surveyor's time.
So we have had some similar stuff. Even got a check up front. The game was the check was stolen and then they wanted the money back as they cancelled the survey. So someone is stealing from another individual and then using us to to get the money.
I've been getting several of these per week.
I responded to one a couple of weeks ago and was provided the information about the property.
When I looked up the property and saw that this person or bot wasn't the owner I told them I would need to speak to the owner before providing an estimate. They never responded back.
I won't be following through to find out but I think it's a scam to get your money.
I first thought maybe it was AI generating a database for a contractor based on area and rates but I don't think that is it now.