<prompt> Human: submitted just now by Arthur_Dent-42So Im trying to rent a house for myself and 2 friends. All students, first-time renters, parents paying rent.Ive been emailing a landlord advertising a house for rent on a property website. Their first email reply asked normal questions like how many renting and when we want the lease, but also asked our occupations, financial situation and monthly gross income. They said they were asking all who contacted them these questions due to high demand Dublin is in a renting crisisI simply said we had full-time working parents supporting us and replied NA to the monthly income question.Now Ive gotten another email thats even weirder, Ill just quote itThank you for your quick reply. Because we have a lot of requests to visit, all of our properties are listed on the Airbnb rental website so the tenants can rent and pay in a easy way. We are Airbnb members since 2010. We have a lot of requests to visit and we cant honor all of them, we are using Airbnb to select only serious people. Through Airbnb we can see if the tenants have enough money to pay the rent and security deposit. For more details about Airbnb rules please access the link below: It then goes on to ask for PPS number, date of birth, nationality asking for which I think is against discrimination laws but whatever and asking if weve ever been evicted, arrested, bankrupt, broken a lease.We have not had any offer of a viewing of the place we asked for one in our first email or gotten a response that made it seem like our response had been read.Were pretty desperate to get a place rented soon, and this place is nicely priced located although not so nice to be obviously a scam. I really dont know whether to reply or not.BTW if this is the wrong subreddit for this point me in the right direction pleaseEdit: Realised I left the location out of the title, this is in Dublin, Ireland.  <response>: Its illegal for them to ask for your PPS, do not give it to them. Please see here.It sounds extremely dodgy to me. Im in Dublin too so I know how bad the rental market is but this is throwing up some serious red flags. 