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- Orlando, FL, USA
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He was advertising a house for rent. Said I needed to fill out the refundable application fee. $75 per adult for $150, plus service fee of $3. He also wanted me to send part of the security deposit, however trying several aps. I was only able to send the $150. He wanted me to try cash ap, Zelle, Apple Pay, pay pal, several different names, emails, id’s. With all the issues I told him I just wanted my application fee returned and that I was backing out. No longer interested in the property. He wanted me to try just 1 more time, fail. I asked again about refund said hold on. Asked a few hours later was told to calm. The following evening I was asked if I got refund yet. Said no. I was asked to send $50. Told him 1) I was busy with something and 2) why would I give you additional money when you are supposed to be refunding $150. We went on about this for a bit. Told him I am not sending you no more money, then he says then you get nothing. He was getting threatening in our texts. I told him I just want my refund and don’t threaten me. After being told again I need to send $50 because I allegedly didn’t pay off balance and in order to get $300 I need to send $50. I am only due $150. I paid for the application fee $75 x’s 2 $150. I asked when I am getting my refund he shows me his bank account. Over $200k. Told him I don’t care about your bank account, I just want my $150 returned to me. Since I wouldn’t send $50 more he said I get nothing at this point I blocked him . I back out with a feeling he was scamming me, all the issues in trying to send money. And this correspondence verified my suspicion he is a scammer. And he is blocked. I have screen shot of all of our texts, but I also spent a good deal of time with him on the phone as well.

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I contacted this person as a result of doing a Google search for cheap car rentals.

She said that her name was Nancy at phone number 888-285-9781, and that in order to take advantage of their discounted enterprise car rental rates, that I would need to purchase an American Express card.

She gave me a confirmation number which I found out later from Miss Destiny enterprise rent-a-car if Wilkes-Barre PA International Airport, was unrecognized and not associated with them at all.

I called enterprise to update some information on the representative who would be delivering the vehicle to me.
This is how I found out that I was scammed.

The transaction total was $200.
Cheap rental

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- Burbank, IL, USA
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Someone has posted my newly bought home on rental websites using my identity to scam people into putting a security deposit. It was listed as 855 a month and multiple people have shown up to see the home.

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I was the target of a rental scam. I responded to a craigslist rental ad. Me and "Sonica" started to text. She asked me to tell her "about myself" so I gave a brief overview. Where I messed up is that she sent me a link to check my credit score, where I then entered my social security number and card details for the $1 it costed in order to get my score. I am afraid my identity might be stolen now.

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I filled out a fake application for an apt that did not belong to this scammer. I found out later. He took my $80 for the application and asked for more to get my apt key. I later found out it wasn't his property.

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To Whom it May Concern

Reporting Scam and Fraud for $1,900

Owners Name: Rosemarie Abel 954-886-0067

Zelle Account: All Power Supply Inc 954-817-0213

Rental Property Address: 9099 NW 55th Ct Sunrise, FL 33351

Property Management (Pine Bay): Ullee Major – 954-839-2681

My wife and I were looking for a new home and found Rosemarie Abel posted a for-rent home on Craigslist, we responded to it by texting on that number 954-886-0067, and she responded yes the home is available, I ask her where the home is located, and she said it’s on commercial BLVD between pine island and nob hill, single family home with one car garage, I ask her what is the monthly payment, and she said $1900 monthly, and the move in is $3800 first and security deposit, and she said we had to do at least a six-month lease, and we ask her if we can do 2 years lease.

I ask her when we can see the home, and do you have any pictures, she said she only schedule walk thorough pre-approval application at this time, and that she can email the listing page with the photos I’m asking for. I asked her what needs to be pre-approved, and she said the HOA requires a clean background check, proof of income, and good references.

I ask her how to move forward, and she said to start the process we need clear picture IDs for the background check, proof of income, and 3 references, she said we can text or email them to her, I ask her for her email and she texts me [email protected],

we text my wife and my driver’s license to her for processing, and she said how would we like to pay for it via cash app or Zelle, I ask her how much the cost of that service was, and she said $100 per adult, and she said it goes toward the security deposit if we choose to rent the house.

She asks me to send her the funds through Cash App, and we said Zelle is the only way we can send the money to you. And she said if we pay through Zelle, we will have to send it to her husband’s phone, 954-817-0213, and she ask me to send her a screenshot of the payment when done, and we send $200 for the background check via Zelle to All Power Supply Inc with this phone number 954-817-0213.

And she said she will get back to us when she here from the association and she text back and said just heard from the association that the background checks are a green light. We ask her what now, and she said the current tenant will be moving out on the 29th of November and she will have a cleaning company scheduled for the 30th of November to clean the home, and then the house can be moved into after that.

she asks me if we are available late that afternoon or evening on the 30th of November 2022, to do a walk-through, and we said yes. She ask us when would we like to move in and we said December 1, 2022, and she said if we wanted to do a refundable hold deposit to reserve the house from now until then, that will hold the unit so no one else can apply, or place a deposit on it between now and then, we ask her for how much for the deposit and she said well typically it would be the move in amount, but if you need to break up the deposit we can do something a little less as a hold, and we said what about $1,000 and she said to let her talk to her husband, she said she doesn’t think he’ll be ok holding it for less than half down, and she said is there any way we can do half of the move in, we ask her before we send you the additional fund, can we meet and also see the home, we told her we’re sending money and personal information to someone we have not seeing.

And she said she’s in central Florida and she can send me proof of ownership and send the property appraisal from Broward County with Rosemarie Abel name on it, and she send me her driver’s license with Rosemarie Abel that matches the property appraisal.

She said she was ready to start writing up the hold contract with the pending lease agreement if we like. She asks us if we have pets and said no, she asks how many people including kids will be living in the house, and we said three total. Then she said the payment is refundable pending the walkthrough outcome and asked if we were okay with that.

She asks if we can send the payment by 4 pm that day so she can get to the bank and get the money moved into its own account, she also said Florida requires by law that deposits on rentals be held in their own account, so we sent an additional $1,700 for the deposit through Zelle sent to All Power Supply Inc 954-817-0213.

We ask her to send us the lease so we can go over it and ask for the association rules and bylaws, she emailed a sample contract and email a link to the association, http://web.mmilive.net/pinebay/home.aspx.

When we call the association no one answered, we told her we are calling the association, but no one answered, she said it was because of the holiday weekend. On Monday, November 28, 2022, we text and call her no answer, on Tuesday we call and text no answer,

and now we call the number we sent the Zelle payments, and someone answered the phone and said nothing, so I text the number and said good afternoon, Rosemarie Abel said you are her husbands, we send $1,900 to All Power Supply and would like a refund today, please. And he responded, I received the money and gave the money to your friend, and he said he have text msgs from her to him about receiving the funds from you and giving them to her.

I asked him to send me that text, and he said it on his phone, we send a text to both saying if we don’t have this money refunded to us by today, we will start reporting it to the local, and federal authorities.

When we check Sunbiz for the company name All Power Supply Inc it’s currently Active and the registered Agent is Silverberg & Weiss P.A. at 1290 Weston Road Suite 218 Weston, FL 33326, and the CEO of All Power Supply Inc is Montgomery Nicholas P at 2580 N Powerline Rd Suite 605 Pompano Beach, FL 33068 (954-633-5536)

When we call Miami Management of Broward County at 954-839-2681 the Manager Ullee Major said there’s no new application for us on the system for that property or our names for Pine Bay Association. She ask to email her at [email protected] to call or email us when she sees the application on the system, she said if we were approved we would have got an approval letter from management.

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Property management company advertising housing as low as $500 month for a house with $3500 move in fees

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This person has a listing on the Facebook marketplace. She gives her email and says to contact her that way. When you email her she tells you she’s in the army, so she has apartments listed with Airbnb. You have to send her your current address that she says she sends to Airbnb, then they send you the invoice for 1,500, which includes a security deposit and the first months rent. Only after you pay this are you able to go look at the apartment and know the location. She then emails you asking you to take the invoice, and cash, go to a bitcoin location( which she finds one close to you) and wants you to make the payments that day. Luckily I didn’t do any of that. I am upset that I gave her my address though.

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Here's my boyfriend and I were stupid and it was a rent to own house in cedar rapids Iowa all utilities paid they demanded $400 security deposit and then you we were told that we would get a key to the house and we could move in I went by the house and there were people inside the house shortly after the $400 was paid otherwise it has been empty for quite a while so I demanded my $400 security deposit back and all I got was a story that the gentleman was sick and when he was able to get out of bed I would probably get my $400 back but then his wife said that they do not have my money and that's all I was told and that I'm not a human being because I'm not letting him get better cuz I was bugging them for my $400 and also there was another party that went through Messenger and they supposedly had a key to the house but we had to wait for a lawyer and that wasn't happening either so yes we were kind of stupid in doing this but it's going all over town and my friends getting involved in it too and they're doing to a lot of people but I would like my $500.00 that includes an application fee back from them because that was hard for me to come up with and yes there were stories as soon as that was paid for so in my opinion it was a scam because there's a lot of them that are out there doing the same thing

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- Fairburn, GA, USA
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I recently was a victim of theft by Deception by a lady named Pearl's Charles who preys on low-income families I had just recently looked at a property that she had posted on the *** website and *** *** website as well she told me that she had been receiving alot of emails in regards to the property I paid a $50 application fee plus $400 for her to take it of the market which is what she told me plus another $400 to move in by the 16th she told me that she had talked to housing Authority and that they had did inspection and that she had turned in all paperwork come to find out they were all lies she never did anything she said when I tried calling her and texting and asking to be refunded my money she hung up in my face along with me sending her emails please stop her so she can't do this again because of her scam me and my young children still have no place to stay she was paid through an app called Cash app she Deserves to be put in Jail.

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- Binghamton, NY, USA
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I am the owner of the home. We listed for sale with our local realtor. The same day our listing was published, the rental scam post appeared on Craigslist. I keep finding it and flagging it but it keeps popping back up. Our current tenants have reported no less than 25 people showing up to the house demaning to know why they are in the house they just paid to rent.

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- Clackamas, OR, USA
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When looking on craigslist my girlfriend and i found a home that we wanted to rent. contacted the person

through the post ( Douglas Marlin Rife), then we spoke about the home and the conditions for moving in and then sent me applications to fill out and on the applications they didn't ask for social security number, or anything to run credit check. ( this is when i should have been suspicious) they then sent us an email telling us that we were approved so they sent their bank of america account number and asked us to transfer the money 3300.00

(1st months rent, security deposit, and pro rate amount for January and so we did they said that they would mail the keys because they lived out of state.

4 days later they

they asked for 1695 more dollars for a last months rent. at that point i went to the home and was able to get the number of the actual owner pf the home Linda. and at that point thats when i realized that it was a scam and went to file report.

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- Boise, ID, USA
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I recently moved from PR to idaho and was trying to find a home for rent to bring the family for them to be a little more comfortable and have the basics, the guy wanted to rent me a house that belongs to a company, when I called the company they said they own the houses for rent, also the houses i saw and people are trying to scam are the only properties in the company. I ask how I got the key of the house if it belongs to the company, the owner of the company said everybody can enter their houses at anytime and have it.

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- Boise, ID, USA
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Trying to look for a house to bring the family from PR to be a little more comfortable and the guy wanted me to take care of the house cus he was moving back to Georgia, wanted to give me a key from the box.

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- Spokane, WA, USA
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saw a property for rent all names matched up and so did all copy and paste details. oddly so did stories from neighbors about the house. we sent the guy money who claimed to be owner Spencer Filzer and he said he would send us the keys and the rental agreement asked over and over about being a possible scam kept saying no. we sent him $400. that was day 1. day 2 we waited for a package to arrive from containing the content he promised nothing showed. very persistent still about the money.

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