<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I don't think that is how it has to be done now with the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>Internet</SPAN></SPAN>. I am moving to another apartment in four days. I am moving into an apartment I have never seen or visited. Everything can be done <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>online</SPAN> now. The thing that the scam artists cannot do that legitimate businesses can is get an electronic verify signature <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>online</SPAN>. I would not do this though unless it is through a well know and established leasing company. If you rent via <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>Internet</SPAN></SPAN> from an individual private party, you can easily get <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>scammed</SPAN></SPAN>.
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Doing a walk through can also be a scam too. I have heard of people leasing the same house to several people at the same time, collecting their money and them trying to all move in later with the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>scamer</SPAN></SPAN> no where to be found. All they need to do is break into a vacant house on the market that has pictures and a description of the house <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>online</SPAN>, move them to their ad, and presto, they have a house they can rent many times over with a low deposit and can accept anyone regardless of bad credit. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, July 21, 2012 1:38 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Craigslist</SPAN> question<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>A couple things . . .<BR><BR>This scam has been around for a while on <SPAN id=misspell-7
class=mark>Craigslist</SPAN>. <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Craigslist</SPAN> is the most unaccountable, unsupervised, uncontrolled <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>online</SPAN> advertiser I know of.<BR><BR>I would be extremely concerned if I were in the market to rent and a potential "landlord" suggested that I stop by the property and "peek in the windows".<BR><BR>I have just completed a move from Taylor Avenue to North Adams Street, here in Moscow. Both properties are owned by Otto Hill Apartments. When I was looking to move, a rep from Otto Hill Apartments set up an appointment and we did a walk-<SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>thru</SPAN>. THAT'S how it's done.<BR><BR><SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"If not us, who?<BR>If not now, when?"<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:01, Sunil Ramalingam <<A
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com" ymailto="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> Any of you read last weekend's <SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>Trib</SPAN> article about the renting scam? A house goes on the market for sale, and someone puts an ad in <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Craigslist</SPAN> announcing it's for rent; they get a deposit, and the poor renters show up on the homeowners' doorsteps, expecting to move in.<BR>> <BR>> Yesterday someone I know told me that she had gotten several strange, similar email responses to her queries about rental property in Portland. I told her about the article. This morning my folks, whose home is on the market in the Portland area, told me that a couple showed up at their front door to look at the place. Actually, the 'owners' (they used my dad's name) told them they were doing missionary work in Africa, and to just come by and look in the
windows. <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Thats</SPAN> the same thing my friend was told. The folks who came by my folks' place were looking in the windows when they saw my parents.<BR>> <BR>> So I told my dad about the scam when we were talking this morning. We'd like to know how does he get these ads off <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>Craigslist</SPAN>? Does he have to go on and find them and flag them? Is there another way?<BR>> <BR>> I'd appreciate any suggestions.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks,<BR>> <BR>> Sunil<BR>> <BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>> http://www.fsr.net<BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A
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