Archive for the ‘rental scams’ Category
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
At RentalScams.org, we have been keeping track of the various rental scams within the United States. Rental scams continue to increase in volume year over year. Below is a Google graph of rental scam interest over time:With that said, we wanted to see the cities that are hit with rental scams.Below are the ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
For a while now, we have been doing our best to educate renters, property owners, and all other web-oriented audiences of online rental scams. Although it is a growing dilemma, there are a few simple precautions that can help avoid the problem altogether.The scam begins with an ad plagiarized from ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
We recently did a survey with over 800 renters who are actively searching for a rental property. We asked them,"During your rental search, have you ever come across an ad or received an email that you suspected to be a scam?"Over 35% of the respondents said they have seen a ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
RentVine developed a chart of top scammer email addresses. Rental Scams are still on the rise.
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Dave Dugdale of PickRent put together a video on how to detect and unmask rental scammers. The scammer tool can be found here.[youtube]PM7pJhUfOgA[/youtube]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The top rental scammer post for rentalscams.org for the last week was Known Rental Scammer - jamesmcannon116@googlemail.com. Within the last week, hundreds of people wanted to learn more about James Cannon. We hope this information helped to stop one more rental scam from getting through.RentalScams.org continues to grow. If you have ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
We recently launched RentalScams.org in an effort to help educate the World about rental scammers and the scams they do. It seems the scammers are not too happy with us exposing their email addresses and content of the scam email. We want to do more of this.
Please help us educate ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
In 2007, total internet fraud was around $240 million in the US.
Over the last year or so, the rental industry has seen a dramatic rise in rental scams and rental scam complaints.
At Rent Marketer and Apartment Marketer, we do everything in our power to ensure rental scams don't get sent ...
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