Tag Archives: Latest Real Estate Scam Has Agents on Alert

Scammers are scraping rental listings off the Internet and using real estate agents’ identity from the listings to dupe would-be clients. Practitioners may not even discover it until the clients confront them, demanding keys for a property they believed they rented and had already mailed a deposit check to the individual they believed was the agent. Scammers are reportedly taking rental listings off Web sites and reposting them at a lower rent than the original listing. The renter than corresponds with the scammer, often through e-mail. Scammers will create e-mail […]