Woman Conned in online Classified Ad Scam
25th Aug 2007
A Canadian woman fell for a rental scam on a popular free classified website.
According to CBS News, Katherine Griggs said someone used a real estate agent’s identity online and duped her out of $2,300, promising her a low rent, spacious apartment in a trendy part of the city.
She sent the money to the fraudster by Moneygram.
The scammer who advertised the apartment on Craigslist.org communicated only by e-mail and was pretending to be real estate agent Tanya Schoen.
At least 30 people showed interest in the apartment, but when they contacted real estate agent Tanya Schoen by phone they discovered that she had no idea what they were talking about. Reports CBS News.
Griggs has this message for the scammer: "You are a very cruel person and please give me my money back. You don't understand what you have done to us and put us through and I hope you never have to go through something like that."
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