Monday, December 12, 2011

How first time home buyers can avoid real estate scams

The state of the current real estate market has brought out a number of real estate scams that have targeted first time home buyers and renters.
First time home buyers are especially susceptible to scams, because they've never been through the process and it makes it easy for scam artists to separate them from their hard earned money.
Here are some tips from the Better Business Bureau on how to avoid scams.
  • The email addresses they use usually are from yahoo, ymail, rocketmail, fastermail, live, hotmail and gmail, 
  • They also post ads under anonymous craigslist addresses. 
  • They frequently change their aliases.
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