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Top 15 Cities for Rental Scams

November 7, 2009 – 5:34 pm

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:

rental scams apartments and houses for rent

With that said, we wanted to see the cities that are hit with rental scams.

Below are the top 15 cities in the US for the most rental scams.

  1. San Diego, CA
  2. Los Angeles, CA
  3. Phoenix, AZ
  4. Seattle, WA
  5. San Francisco, CA
  6. Washington, DC
  7. New York, NY
  8. Atlanta, GA
  9. Boston, MA
  10. Orlando, FL
  11. Denver, CO
  12. Austin, TX
  13. Chicago, IL
  14. Las Vegas, NV
  15. Portland, OR


  1. 4 Responses to “Top 15 Cities for Rental Scams”

  2. Actually I have been noticing the opposite that they are working on much smaller cities where people are not as aware of the scams. I just had one this morning for Bristol, TN.

    By Dave on Nov 7, 2009

  3. Yeah, the scammers are also reaching the long tail of cities.

    By Dan Daugherty on Nov 8, 2009

  4. We get atleast one scam daily by way of email and they are always from overseas. They ask for cost and want to pre-pay but don’t want to fill out an Application.

    They end up sending us a check drawn on a US Bank but when we call the Bank to verify the check validity, the Bank tells us the check is a bogus. The scammers even send it like 2nd day air to us.

    What other kind of scams are being played right now out there?

    By First Troy Rentals on Nov 8, 2009

  5. Here are how some of the scams work:

    http://rentalscams.org/category/rental-scams/

    By Dan Daugherty on Nov 8, 2009

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