Beth Ann’s experience with a craigslist scam makes the New York Daily News:
The phone calls kept coming, all from people interested in renting her upper West Side apartment.
The only problem: Beth Ann Bovino wasn’t renting it out.
She discovered that someone pretending to be her had placed a real-estate ad on Craigslist using her name, address and even an accurate picture of her brownstone.
The too-good-to-be true ad asked for $1,500 for the one bedroom with a fireplace – utilities included.
So the real Beth Ann Bovino responded to the ad, hoping to put an end to the sham.
“I probably should have gone straight to the cops but I thought I would be Nancy Drew,” said Bovino, 41, an economist at Standard & Poor’s. “That didn’t quite work out.”
[H/t Aaron Showalter & James Owens.]