Scammers focus on Edwardsville region condominium rentals
EDWARDSVILLE — It appears like almost everything is a opportunity target for a fraud these times, and apartment rentals are no exception.
A dialogue with three regional serious estate agents exposed diverse sorts of ripoffs, but they all involved people today getting defrauded or deceived by bogus listings for rental homes.
In the situation of Terri Dalla Riva, a serious estate agent with Coldwell Banker Brown Realtors in Edwardsville, a latest fraud included a household she has detailed for sale, alongside with a close by home.
“I had a dwelling stated for sale at 436 Grandview in Edwardsville. A person on forrent.com set up a listing at 437 Grandview, which is across the road, and took the photographs from my listing and reported the home at 437 was for hire,” Dalla Riva explained.
“They understood the owner’s name throughout the avenue (at 437 Grandview) and employed his title in the