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RECON
Real Estate Center Online News

GALVESTON (Galveston County Daily News) – Con artists from Nigeria have targeted Galveston Island using the online classified source Craigslist. Scammers con unsuspecting renters into wiring rent money for houses Realtors have listed for sale.
According to the FBI, the scammers find listed properties on public search websites and post the same information to Craigslist as houses for rent. When an interested party contacts them, the scammers usually say that had to leave for Africa to do missionary work before they were able to rent the house.
The scammers then send the potential renters an application in hopes that they will wire first and last month’s rent back to Nigeria. In most of the scams, the rental prices are attractive.
The same rental scam has duped people in Rhode Island, Illinois, Colorado and California.

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