Nigerian Scammer tries to scam my apartment rental

Unbelievable.  I had gone back and forth with this guy for a few emails since he said his niece who currently lives in England was interested in my room for rent.  OK.  Did the questions, etc.  Then today I get the hook to scam me.  Here is the email.  See the scam is that I cash his check and the bank gives me the money and I think everything is good.  I send over $2000 out of the country to his "niece"  Thing is the originating bank is either phony or will say the check was phony and I have to pay my bank back.  BAD, BAD CON MAN.  How did I know?   The request sounded a bit on the fishy side so I looked at the IP Address of where this came from at DNS Stuff http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall.ch?ip=41.219.229.227
You will see that the message is not coming from England but from a certain African nation by the name of Nigeria.

erric henry  to me

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Hello, Thanks for your response.She will arrive by Octomber 1st and leave by March 30th neice's name is Beckins Henry and she is 24 years old Medical student of Universty of East London.She is responsile,neat,non-smoker and easy going.I want to pay for the first month rent payment and security deposit upfront before her arrival.I will send you one of my US cashier check of $3650 which i bought the last time i came to the US.I will write it payable to your name which is cashabe in your bank.I am sending you that much money because my dad is very sick at the moment and i need to go out of town to take care of him and i need to go with all the money i have with me because i dont know how much money am going to spend for his hospital bill and take care of neccessary things.The cashier check is for US which is cashable at your bank and its not cashable here in UK.I made promise to my niece early this year that if she performs very well in her Final year exams in the University that am going to send her to the US for her vacation.She has performed very well and i dont want to dissapoint her.So as soon as you receive the casheir check,take it to the bank and cash it,remove $1480 and send the balance down here to my niece through western union money transfer so she can buy her ticket and buy necessary things she will need because i will be away from town to take care of my dad because he is very sick at the moment.She will pay for utilitites when she arrive there.My niece has no problem sharing apartment with either a male, female or pets around.Send me your name,address and phone number so i can write the check payable to your name. Hope to hear from you as soon as possible to i can send the check to you before i leave town to my dad's place Regards

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Delivered-To: kevin@kevindiffily.comReceived: by 10.101.66.19 with SMTP id t19cs445259ank;        Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:38:01 -0700 (PDT)Received: by 10.114.144.1 with SMTP id r1mr6546349wad.97.1221503880806;        Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT)Return-Path: Received: from web63601.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63601.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.71])        by mx.google.com with SMTP id 9si18419423ywf.2.2008.09.15.11.37.59;        Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT)Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of e_henry209@yahoo.com designates 69.147.97.71 as permitted sender) client-ip=69.147.97.71;DomainKey-Status: good (test mode)Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of e_henry209@yahoo.com designates 69.147.97.71 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=e_henry209@yahoo.com; domainkeys=pass (test mode) header.From=e_henry209@yahoo.comReceived: (qmail 22041 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Sep 2008 18:37:59 -0000DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;  s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;  h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID;  b=Kk72JKmChR5/H88MhXDDoyySFsYcAUFbFuRThLVVQ/eJkVxrH+nnDZ0uMLSaDcDn6HivVzEYMTNLMBQCgaOyBpmkNY8WeFD9pGdv9tp5Jr+Zg534U4VdqNEBqetEKsxKMxk+KeI3Lpwi44ObIZGFDOFpY5PkAtN1UeWPFZoAo6c=;X-YMail-OSG: z4NgQmoVM1l5a_MI_VpOhT5MYBfx6_dh9OUZNyy2rzz8a4p0XSlM8WR2sFq9AlrrrpKV0OJFCwDxzOMe_WTtaUPEEvhjVvlO3R7JAcsgEGSgDXV2Xv08e1yWbRtpcsA-Received: from [41.219.229.227] by web63601.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:37:59 PDTX-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:37:59 -0700 (PDT)From: erric henry Reply-To: e_henry209@yahoo.comSubject: Re: roomTo: Kevin Diffily In-Reply-To: <30a04a620809141859u2992bc5fkc2ead994d3cd3759@mail.gmail.com>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1597228046-1221503879=:21865"Message-ID: <187778.21865.qm@web63601.mail.re1.yahoo.com>--0-1597228046-1221503879=:21865Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableHello,Thanks for your response.She will arrive by Octomber 1st and leave by March= 30th neice's name is Beckins Henry and she is 24 years old Medical student= of Universty of East London.She is responsile,neat,non-smoker and easy goi=ng.I want to pay for the first month rent payment and security deposit upfr=ont before her arrival.I will send you one of my US cashier check of $3650 =which i bought the last time i came to the US.I will write it payable to yo=ur name which is cashabe in your bank.I am sending you that much money beca=use my dad is very sick at the moment and i need to go out of town to take =care of him and i need to go with all the money i have with me because i do=nt know how much money am going to spend for his hospital bill and take car=e of neccessary things.The cashier check is for US which is cashable at you=r bank and its not cashable here in UK.I made promise to my niece early thi=s year that if she performs very well in her Final year exams in the University that am going to send her to the US for her vacation.She has pe=rformed very well and i dont want to dissapoint her.So as soon as you recei=ve the casheir check,take it to the bank and cash it,remove $1480 and send =the balance down here to my niece through western union money transfer so s=he can buy her ticket and buy necessary things she will need because i will= be away from town to take care of my dad because he is very sick at the mo=ment.She will pay for utilitites when she arrive there.My niece has no prob=lem sharing apartment with either a male, female or pets around.Send me you=r name,address and phone number so i can write the check payable to your na=me.=A0Hope to hear from you as soon as possible to i can send the check to you be=fore i leave town to my dad's place=A0=A0RegardsHenry