HOMERENTAL SCAMS:

“Just pay the security deposit, and the place is yours”

ATTACK VECTOR: Craigslist “Home for Rent” ads THE SCAM: Fraudster places a fake Craigslist “Home for Rent” ad. Responders are asked to wire transfer a security deposit to the owner, who is conveniently out of town. Or the “landlord” shows the home to several prospective tenants, collecting a cash security deposit from each THE GOAL: Money THE TELL: In the first scenario, you'll be asked to send money–often by wire transfer–to someone in another city before seeing the property. In the second, you may not know until you (and all the others the “landlord” has scammed) show up, expecting to move…into the same place