29-04-2020 20:42 via calgary.ctvnews.ca

Con artists take advantage of coronavirus pandemic to scam renters

There's a new twist to a common rental scheme, the Better Business Bureau says. This time, fraudsters are using the coronavirus, along with the restrictions associated with the illness, in order to convince victims to fall for their ploy. What's happening is scammers are finding genuine ads posted on a number of popular online marketplace websites and creating copies of them for their own purposes. Once the replies start coming in, the fraudsters tell the unwitting victims they aren't able to me
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