It looks like another scam is hitting Craigslist, this time preying upon renters and realtors. In one case, someone took the online listing of a realtor in Seattle, Washington, for a brand-new townhouse in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood and copied it to Craigslist as a rental. The $365,000 home was suddenly on the renters market for $1200 per month. She was tipped off by an e-mail from a prospective renter who almost fell for the scam. “The person who placed the ad wanted him to send him $40 because he was out of the country, so he could send him the keys and he could go look at the place himself,” she said. The low-rent rip-off may not seem like a big deal until people realize just how easy it is, and the fact that Internet-based scams like this are usually run all across the county with an endless supply of potential victims. The common thread through these scams is that the alleged homeowner is “out of state” and “needs someone to either rent or take care of the house immediately.”

Source: http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor...scam_KC.46e2a8

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