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Craigslist Scammer Targeting Our Property Listings. How to best deal with this?

Over the last few months, my business partner and I have put several property listings for sale onto the MLS and autofed the data to other property websites (Zillow, Realtor, Homes.com ..etc) .

Almost each time, without fail, someone has copied all of the information and photos from our listings onto the local Craigslist, posing as the owner, and falsely advertised the property for lease for a very low rate.

Like most markets, our area has a shortage of affordable housing rentals and this individual or group has been taking advantage of this situation by scamming people into sending him money as a “deposit”. Beyond being totally immoral, this also seems illegal.

Each time we’ve discovered the fake listings, we’ve flagged them on craiglist but we’re at our wits end on how to stop this and prevent it from happening going forward.

Has anyone else ever dealt with this? How can we put a stop to this?

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source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/k4b5lx/craigslist_scammer_targeting_our_property/
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