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

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Illegal dog breeder, Liverpool ticket scammers and pervert councillor spared jail this month

These are the 26 people who were hauled before courts across Merseyside this month but walked free.

One court heard of two ticket scammers who stole thousand s Liverpool fans as part of a ‘sophisticated’ operation.

Kieran Foynes and David Glaz sold match tickets that didn’t exist on Craigslist and Twitter, pocketing £2,040 for themselves.

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Illegal dog breeder Lisa Walker was also spared an immediate jail sentence after making more than £30,000 from selling puppies.

The 42-year-old didn’t have a licence to sell the puppies but gave the “false impression” she had a legitimate business.

When sentencing, judges and magistrates have to follow a set of guidelines and consider if there’s a realistic prospect of rehabilitation, strong personal mitigation and if immediate custody will result in a harmful impact on others.

These circumstances, as

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