Overseas Internet Scammers Running Rental Hoaxes Hit Alaska; Bogus Ads Showing Up On Craigslist

In Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reports:

• Overseas Internet scammers are including Anchorage residents among their targets in the latest scheme to hit online sites featuring classified ads, according to Anchorage police. The scam, which involves residential rental ads being listed by someone other than the property owner, has been making its way around the country for some time, but has just recently been reported here with at least three homes being fraudulently listed on Craigslist, said Detective Sgt. Ron Tidler, supervisor of the Anchorage police computer crimes unit. "I haven't come across anybody that has actually been duped by it, but sometimes people can be too embarrassed to report it," he said.

For more, see Rental hoax arrives from abroad (Internet Ads: Scammers pose as Anchorage property owners, police say).

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