We had a rental property listed on the local rental web site... someone cloned the the ad, pictures, address, but halved the rent.
People that emailed them got a story about "can't show you the house 'cause we're out of the country, send us a big deposit and we'll send you the keys."
We had a several different sets of people drop by to see the house while we were repainting and were kinda annoyed at us when we told them the real rent. One said "wow you speak English really well for someone from Nigeria". One was about to mail the money... just stopped by to look thru the windows.
If it looks too good to be true.. guess what.. !!!
Don't forget, the listing is in the Peterborough Kijiji, the car is in Calgary, and the seller is in Texas - according to the ad. This type of scam is being carried out from a few central locations. Because of the beauty of the internet, they can pretend to be anywhere. I don't know this to be true, but have heard that a lot of these scams actually originate in Europe or Russia.
Actually, I've seen info showing that alot of these internet scams are coming from Nigeria and countries around it like Chad and Ghana.
We had a rental property listed on the local rental web site... someone cloned the the ad, pictures, address, but halved the rent.
People that emailed them got a story about "can't show you the house 'cause we're out of the country, send us a big deposit and we'll send you the keys."
We had a several different sets of people drop by to see the house while we were repainting and were kinda annoyed at us when we told them the real rent. One said "wow you speak English really well for someone from Nigeria". One was about to mail the money... just stopped by to look thru the windows.
If it looks too good to be true.. guess what.. !!!
Wow that's scary! It would have been a big mess if someone went ahead and sent the deposit!
Wow that's scary! It would have been a big mess if someone went ahead and sent the deposit!
Yeah, we had the same concern... although we figured they would wait a long long time for the actual keys. ;-)