"Scam This House"

[Vincent D.]

I have a house, owned and rented comfortably for quite a while now, which recently began to mysteriously produce renter prospects to the doorstep of the house. My tenants were a bit freaked out, naturally.

Turns out, some scammer apparently pulled my info from an ancient Craig's List ad I'd posted years ago, and created a dummy ad at mynewplace dot com.

I've had scammers reproduce the Craig's List ad before, but this transposition of data to another rental ad site was a new one.

Anyone having a similar experience? In the end, I sent an email to the website admin and had the bunk ad withdrawn. My poor tenants!

[Vincent D.]

An acquaintance of mine had brief interaction with one of these CL scammers. The guy was actually going to meet him at the "rental house" to collect deposit. geez. How does this type of thing get stopped? I'd like to infiltrate one of these posers, pretending to be an unsuspecting tenant and showing up with a cop.