Many times I simply toss SDAR emails I get. However I thought this one may worth posting here. If you are a tenant looking for a home, specially in the beach area don’t get scammed.
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SDAR was notified today of a rental scam taking place in the beach areas including La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Ocean Beach. Someone has obtained the lockbox access codes for combination lockboxes located on vacant rental properties. These are not SentriLock lockboxes, but rather, simple combination lockboxes that can be obtained from retail stores. With a list of properties and lockbox combinations in hand, the scam artists list the properties for rent on Craig’s List, show the property, take a deposit and then take off with the deposit money.
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So the moral of the story is, make sure the guy you are writing the deposit check out to is really the property manager or owner of the home.
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