(813) 964-7239

Same as Michael Woods' story except that the for sale signs are not up at the house right now. The person emailed back using the name of the registered owner of the house. After looking up the phone number and calling the realtor we learned that this was a scam.

Trying to rent a house in Los Angeles (2320 El Paseo St, Alham*** CA), after an email exc****e, I got a call from this number. It sounded fishy that the owners lived out of state and had the house for sale. The first explanation was that the house was no longer for sale, so don't be bothered by the "For Sale" signs they haven't taken down yet. I called the listing agent to verify, who said the house was, indeed, still for sale. The story from the "owners" then c****ed--they would take the house off the market once rented. I came here to verify that the phone records matched up with the property owners, but that's not necessary, thanks to the comments everyone left.

we were really excited to move to this beautiful house in sugar house,slc for really cheap $625 month for 3 bed 2 bath home but then when we wanted it to send the first month of rent they sent us this email : The payment will be made to my sister through Western Union and here is the information which you will need to make the payment. NAME: WANDA MARIE DAY CITY: VALDOSTA STATE: GA TEST QUESTION:HUSBAND ANSWER:THOMAS ALSO GET BACK TO ME WITH THE FOLLOWING ONCE YOU MAKE THE PAYMENT SENDERS NAME..................... SENDERS ADDRESS.......................... AMOUNT SENT......................$1025 MTCN#.................................. Get back to me with the payment details given to you by Western Union. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon. to georgia? and they live in florida and then we became very sceptic and found a bunch of blogs with the same phone number and they even send the same email they just c****e the address! please be very carefull

Status Photo Place Life Event What's on your mind? Friends Activity Recent Molly collected a Big Food Farm in Dragon City. Like · Comment Molly is now friends with Grace Gillott and 3 other people. Molly liked Nationwide Children's Hospital. More Recent Activity Molly Zeigler about an hour ago I'd like to share so****ing with my friends on facebook and anyone that might try to rent a house in the future. Kyle and I weren't looking to move per say, but I was just looking up rent prices on the area we'd like to move to someday and stumbled upon a nice looking house with a very nice low rent on an online classifieds site. I was skeptical though, what's wrong with it? Well, I decided to ema il them about it and find out. The story was that the man and woman that owned it lived in Florida and had bought it with the intention to resell, but because of the economy, they had decided to rent it instead. It sounded reasonable enough. I was curious how they'd come across a house in Ohio, living in Florida but I was more interested in the house itself. We went into the situation thinking, 'if anything sounds fishy, we'll back out before we give them any money.' I asked about the property and was told that we could go look at it but since the keys were with them in Florida we'd have to wait to have them sent to us if we wanted the house. I thought this sounded slightly strange that we wouldn't get a chance to look inside the house but I****umed that if they didn't trust anyone to keep the key for them, that might be the only way they knew to do it. We looked at the house and liked what we saw. I contacted them a***n with more information about our situation, our dogs, our 3 month old and that fact that Kyle and I aren't yet married. They didn't seem bothered by the dogs or the baby. I was thrilled because the house had a fenced in back yard, Central Air, a almost completely refinished ba*****t, and according to the 'landlord' the utilities were included. That's where it got a little too good to be true. $545 a month in an area that was easily $800+ a month without utilities.... I looked a***n at how this could go badly. My logic was, if we sign a lease BEFORE we give them any money, we have a legal contract that they must honor. We told them we were interested and they gave us an application form. It was simple and asked for two references, phone numbers and a driver's license number but nothing more personal. They 'approved' us in a few hours time and we had signed and rescanned a 'lease' to them. They said how they would need the first month's rent and the deposit (which wasn't even a full month's rent) before they'd send out the keys and some other paper work for us to keep. I s****ed packing! I was thrilled to be moving closer to Kyle's work and in a better neighborhood. I was so excited we were moving so I posted it to a mom's support group I am a part of. That's where I was alerted to the scam. She told me how some people find houses that are actually foreclosed on by the bank and try to rent them out, saying they're from out of state. They make it a very nice deal and then scam the people for a couple month's worth of rent and then disconnect phones, and all connections. She said that the legal work is hard to get through because of the fact that the criminals are in a different state. People almost never get their money back. I s****ed thinking about the little things that didn't make a ton of sense but didn't seem like a problem at the time. When I had asked for more photos of the inside of the house, I was given only the same photos that were posted on the site I had originally found the house. The rent and utilities suddenly sounded TOO good, simply too good to be true. We looked up this house and found that it was indeed foreclosed on. I also emailed the 'landlord' back and asked for proof of ownership. They never contacted me a***n. You may thing I'm ****** for falling for this scam. Trust me I know the implications of what would have happened. We could have very well been homeless and out $845+ when all was said and done. I'm telling you all this because I may have made misjudgements but this scam does happen and it apparently happens often enough to get a TV show (that's how one of the May mom's heard about it). They aim for people looking for a cheaper home in a decent area. They have certain restrictions, like they're out of state, but when you're really needing a place to move, you think that it's possible to work around that. We were very fortunate to have been warned before we sent money. We were pretty close to that step. I want to tell you about this because it could happen to anyone looking for a place to stay. I was willing to work with people and I would have been left homeless and out of money. What makes me most upset about this situation is they read that we had a 3 month old daughter and they didn't care. They didn't care that we would have been out of a home and they'd be $800 richer! They will probably try this with someone else. You can choose to share this or not. I'm simply trying to make sure none of my friends ever fall victim to this scam like I almost did.

This person is calling himself Mr. Jonah (and his partner Mrs. De*** ***dder)…and is attempting to rent a house in Denver (Lakewood), CO at 2190 S Allison Ct Lakewood, CO 80227, claiming that he bought the house and put some work into it and due to the recession is unable to sell and has decided to s**** renting. These are all lies. I have confirmed with actual Realtors that this house is not available for rent and this is a scam. The phone number he called me from was 813-964-7239 and emailed from [email protected]. PLEASE AVOID THIS SCAMMER AND DO THE RIGHT THING AND REPORT HIM IF YOU INTERACT WITH HIM AND HE'S STILL AT IT!!

I have first hand knowledge that the owner of this phone number has been scamming people out of thousands of dollars over the last month at least. he was able to have a legitimate for sale house and turned it into a rental scam. The house for sale is in monroeville pennsylvania. This is a scam please do not fall victim to it.