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Super rampant here in CA with Craigslist. Scammer will post a rental ad for a house that is currently for sale in Zillow. You know it's a scam pretty easily, bu
by coding123 5y ago
Super rampant here in CA with Craigslist. Scammer will post a rental ad for a house that is currently for sale in Zillow. You know it's a scam pretty easily, but not everyone does. If someone other than Craigslist can get in this market and do a better job, one that verifies the Lister owns the property, and there is no funny business about who gets the property, that would be excellent.
- gfxgirl 5y agoI ran into this yesterday. It wasn't entirely clear it was a scam, well to me, at first. The first clue was "sorry, no in house viewing, we had son and 2 friends die from COVID, please understand". Yes, that's a big red flag but sounded like a legit excuse to me. But, at least it got me suspicious. Next was in their email they claimed to be working for somecompany.com but their email address was soomecompany.com. Finally the location was on redfin as having been sold only 4 month ago and the rental price was arguably 20% lower than it should have been. I can't prove it was a scam but I passed. It was frustrating to me that there is apparently no public online way to look up the owner of a property. I suppose there's some reason for that.
- ajb 5y agoIn the UK, you can look up the owner of a property. You pay £4 though.
- coding123 5y agoThis one in Cali: I am in Philadelphia in the Military Camp, you can go by and view the inside of the house through the window, if you like it, you get back to me so we can proceed with the rentals.. then at the end of the email... Thanks will be looking forward to your reply. United State Army General SCAPARROTTI For reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Scaparrotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Scaparrotti