During the roommate search, most of us have used Craigslist to advertise our spare room. However, one of the major downsides of using Craigslist is the e-mails we receive from scammers.
Although, the majority of us have been smart enough to look past these phony e-mails and avoid being scammed, there have been some inexperienced “live-in landlords” that have fallen victim to these e-mails.
Some of these victims commented in one of my popular posts, “Avoid Getting Scammed” asking for help.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing that I can do to help these victims, but what I can do is to prevent it from happening. In order to do so, I’m going to need help from the community of “live-in landlords.”
STEPPING UP
I would like for any “live-in landlord” that has recently received an e-mail from a scammer to post a copy of the e-mail and more importantly the e-mail address so that the information becomes searchable through a Google search.
I can hope that by making the information available, a newbie “live-in landlord” will be smart enough to research suspicious e-mail via Google, thus tipping them off.
So will you help the community by posting e-mails from scammers?
I'm Mike, I rent out my spare rooms in my house to roommates. So far, the rental income has :
