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Ask HN: Should I do anything when encountering a Craigslist apartment scammer?
Looking for apartments in LA. There are several postings by a guy named Dan; the places are clean and slightly cheaper than market rate. My gf and I applied for one of the places, sent in an application and got quickly approved. Red flags were obvious:
- could not come visit the place
- could not arrange a meeting as he is out of town on business
- phone number in the ad is dead
- the "landlord" email was some random name "@landlord.com"
- payment can be only sent via wire transfer direct into bank account (we asked about Paypal)
- sent another email under a fake email with a bogus application that no right-minded landlord would accept, and was accepted quickly
Here are a few listings though there are a bunch more:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sub/5376701320.html
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sub/5376720622.html
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sub/5368761400.html
This being Craigslist, is there a point of "reporting" him? How would one even do that?
- DrScump 11y agoYou could try reporting to law enforcement; CL seems to take little interest in avoiding or stopping fraud.