Apartment Rental Credit Check Scam
Found the scam on this site Fakelist.org when the realtor did not return my request for her phone number.
ThePowersThatBe
Posted: 08.04.22:41
"This is a simple scam done through affiliate marketing. The scammer will advertise properties for rent all over the nation through popular free websites. The advertisements will look like any other rental property ad, vague and without an address. As people respond to the ad, the scammer will email them a rental application (fake), a request for a credit report (an affiliate link in the email), and a request to set up a time and day to do a walk-through of the property. The scam is the affiliate link to the "free credit report." After you sign up with the credit report company, you will be told by the prospective landlord/scammer that the property has been rented. You will move on with your house/apartment hunting and be none the wiser until you start getting billed for the "free credit report monitoring" on your credit card. The scammer gets paid for everyone he signs up on the affiliate link."
This is what the realtor told us to do. She needed the report to show the property.
I noticed the site was not secure although it said it was. Then to get to the report I just paid for with my debit card I had to enter my social security number. I refused to do this since it too was not showing the https address nor would it take the "s" to make it a secure address.
I did not hear back from Jessica Date from Solid State Properties but she got my debit card information.
This is the true site for free credit reports
Http://www.ftc. Gov/bcp/edu/microsites/freereports/index. Shtml
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