Heather and I booked our rental house in Duck recently for a renter who contacted us from our ad in Craigslist... and turns out they were just trying to run the old "I sent you a check for too much by mistake" scam.
Of course we immediately canceled the reservation when they tried it, and sure enough a check arrived today; $3500 for an $800 off season week! The return address was in Montana, the check was drawn on a bank in Texas... for a renter from the UK. I reported it on Scam.com, and I can't really think of much else to do besides sharing it here. I hope we might save someone else the trouble of taking their rental property off the market over the holidays for a rental that will never happen.
At least the crooks are out of their UPS 2nd day air fees!
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