Someone has duplicated, multiple times, an ad we have on Craigslist to rent out our house in LA for a year.
The way they did it was to take same ad (identical), put the rent PRICE down to half or less than half of what we put in our ad - thus getting a lot of attention since it is just "too good to be true". Then people reply to ad to an email address that is NOT ours - The "phishers" in turn email them back saying they are out of town traveling but urge the potential tenants to make a deposit to "secure the place".......
WOW!
Only reason we found out about this was because a person who lives close to us saw this ad and drove by our house to check it out for himself - he called us to let us know that someone might be phishing using our house as bait. I have to really thank that guy!
In any case, let this be a warning to anyone doing similar things on Craigslist or other similar sites. They are sneaky bastards!
PS. We contacted Craigslist and all they did was flag the fake ads. Weak.
