Nov 25, 2012
Craigslist ad for a rental in Port Angeles, WA. Email address is a name, which doesn't match the persons name. He works for USAID, as a missionary in Nigeria for 5 years. He was in such a hurry to move, that he took all the paperwork..and house keys with him to Africa. He knows nobody in town that can show the house. He wants me to send him $1250 and all my personal information(rental application), and then he will send me the keys. I discovered the house is on the real estate market, and that the craigslist ad is a "cut and paste" duplicate of an ad run by a real estate company, on the internet. Now that I want to see the house, he insists that I fill out the application, and send a deposit right away. I wish there was a way to prosecute internet scammers.