Sophisticated scam

I have seen that scam format a thousand times before.
It's no more than a variation of a Room for Rent Scam, in which the scammer will tell you that he will need to send you a cheque for some reason. When the cheque arrives it will be for far more than you were expecting. He will tell you to cash the check and send him the "extra money" by Western Union . This check or money order will be fake, even if your bank cashes the check or tells you that it "cleared"!!!! The bank will find out in a few days or weeks that the check is fake, and will make you pay all of the money back, even the money you sent to the scammer. The bank might even have you arrested for cashing a bad check.
The African scammers are getting much smarter and learning how to manipulate their IP, this is a trick the Russian scammers have known for some time and the Africans are now catching on.

You cant trust IPs any more, if there are other indicators that it is not right, then go by those.

In this case the format and timing of the information they ask for is all too common in scams.

You will see this exact format in many scams, any email that includes this should be regarded as a scam.