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Local Craigslist Scam BEWARE Virginia Beach renters, sellers, and owners

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Real Estate Agent with Samson Properties Broker/Realtor DC,MD/VA

I'm now a CRAIGSLIST FRAUD Victim!  Go Check your listings.  I have a home for sale on Craigslist in Virginia Beach, VA that has been copied and rewritten and presented on another ad on craigslist as a rental.  The new rental ad has my homes photos and most of my verbiage from the original ad, the contact info is a simple reply email addess set up with my name to a yahoo account I have never had.  The rent price is so low anyone would be interested in the property.  When you reply to the craigslist ad you get this email below: Beware they are looking to capture your info.  I have had the ad flag and contacted craigslist.  Go check your ads immediately!  THIS IS AMAZINGLY SCARY!!!!!!!!

Hello Dear.


Thanks for the interest in my house. I Mr DeAndrea  Jonesown the 3 bedroom Home and i also want you to know that it was due to my transfer that makes me and my wife leave the house so i want to give it out for rent thats why am looking for a responsible person that can take very good care of it,like his or her own.we are not after the money for the rent but we want it to be clean at all time and be taking good care of.
 
i pray that the person that will rent my house will takes it as if it were his or her own. So for now, We are here in west Africa,Nigeria our new house.we are having all the keys and all vital documents right here with us,we try to look for an agent that we can give this documents to before we left but could not see and also we are as well cautious about not wanting our house be used,any how out of our present that is why we took the keys and all documents along with us.
 
me and my wife and our 15 years son are presently in West Africa working in an AIDS orphange with missionaries from our church.so i hope you will solicit us to take very good care of the house and maintain it and i will can be rest assured i finally found a caring one to take good care of our house.so get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of $800(per month) with hydro,heat laundry facilities,wacher,heat air condition and so on.  I am looking forward to hear from you ASAP, below is the application form for you to fill and discuss on how to get the house for rent,

This is the address of the home below.

1012 Torngat Ct City: Virginia Beach State: VA Zip Code: 23454
 

KINDLY COMFIRM YOUR INTEREST BY FILLING THE FORM BELOW
 

TENANT RENT APPLICATION FORMFIRST NAME: __________________
MIDDLE NAME: __________________
LAST NAME: __________________
PROFESSION: ________________
PHONE (____) __________ (CELL)
PHONE (____) __________ (WORK)
PHONE (____) __________ (HOME)
MARITAL STATUS: _________
KIDS _____ (YES/NO), HOW MANY ________
PRESENT ADDRESS: ___________________________
CITY: _______________
STATE: ______________
ZIPCODE: ____________
HOW LONG? ___________IF RENTING
WHY ARE YOU LEAVING? _______________________________________________________________________
CURRENT RENT: _______
PREVIOUS ADDRESS: ___________________________
CITY: ________________
STATE: _______________
ZIPCODE: _____________
HOW LONG? ____________ IF RENTING,APARTMENT.
WHY DID YOU LEAVE? _______________________________________________________________________
PREVIOUS RENT: _______
IF THIS APARTMENT IS BEING GIVEN TO YOU,
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING? ____________
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN? ______________
*PETS*
IF YOU HAVE A PET,
NAME OF PET: ______________
KIND OF PETS: _____________
WEIGHT: ___________________
HABITS
DO YOU SMOKE? ______________
DO YOU DRINK? ______________
DO YOU WORK LATE NIGHT? ___

Looking forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file incase of issuing the receipt for you and contacting you.Await your soonest response so that we can discuss on how to get the document and the keys to you,please we are giving you all this base on trust and again i will want you to stick to your words,you know that,we have not seen yet.am only putting everything into Gods hand,so please do not let us down with this our property and God bless you more as you do all this.you can call me on my private phone.+2348033340806 so we can talk on phone.

Regards.

Go CHECK YOUR ADS IMMEDIATELY!!!  I have had several people email me from my homes for sale ad asking about this one.  I'M just pissed they used my name and I'm Mrs not Mr. and there are a ton of typos...................

 

 

 

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Comments(2)

Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

That is scary and I know they will get someone's information sooner or later and when the do, I am betting that persons bank accounts and identity will be stolen.

Todd Clark, Helping Families Home - www.IFoundYourNewHome.com

Nov 12, 2008 01:13 AM
Anonymous
joe

Hi Im also a victim of a scam that didnt succeed. I PLACED AN AD ON CRAIGSLIST FOR A ROOM I HAD FOR RENT. A YOUNG LADY SENT ME PICS AND A STORY OF HER COMING TO THE STATES TO SCHOOL. I ADMIT I WAS SKEPTICAL,HOWEVER SHE NEXT DAY AIRED ME A CASHIERS CHECK FOR $3800.00 AND SAID TO DEPOSIT IT UNTIL HER ARRIVAL WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK. WELL, I DID, WITH THE NOTION THAT IF ANYTHING WAS WRONG WITH THE CHECK,BANK OF AMERICA WOULD NOTIFY ME. I CHECKED MY ACCOUNT A WEEK LATER AND FOUND IT WAS CLOSED. I CONTACTED THE BANK WHO, EVEN AFTER I TOLD THEM I HAVE DOCUMENTATION(E-MAILS) TO CONFIRM MY STORY WAS TOLD MY ACCOUNT WILL NOT BE REOPENED AND THEY WILL REPORT ME TO THE CHEX SYSTEM (AN ACCOUNT VERIFICATION SERVICE). TALK ABOUT BEING VICTIMIZED!!! I HAVE CONTACTED THE LOCAL POLICE AND THE F.T.C. ALSO IM SENDING A LETTER WITH COPIES OF THE E-MAILS TO BANK OF AMERICA AND CHEX SYSTEM..BEWARE!! IT SEEMS THAT BANK OF AMERICA DOESNT CARE IF YOU WERE SCAMMED..BUT THEY WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE EVEN HARDER!!~  

Sep 14, 2009 11:00 AM
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