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Online Real Estate Scams - How To Detect Them
Online Real Estate Scams - How To Detect Them
The topic of an article to be written is: Online Real Estate Scams - How To Detect Them. I am part of a network of writers who ask for help with research when they are writing. If the topic is not their expertise they get help from some who may have specific experience. It makes their info more useful and of course more credible.
So here is my response to Online real estate scams and how to possibly detect them.  What would you add to the list of How Tos?
 
There is so much Real Estate information on the Internet that consumers are easily being misled. Many websites' only goal is to capture an identity (a name, phone, email) for sale to whomever will buy it. Besides advertising, many sites sell identities.  Non-professionals may not know that many areas of the country don't even have an MLS. And they may not know that data feeds can be stopped, like when Real tor.com ended Zil low's main feed last April.  So providing what seems to be useful real estate info is an easy hook for the phishers to use.With a large expense like real estate, the public never ... more

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