Two Orange County men ages 34 and 38 were arrested in Carlsbad on Friday, July 11, 2008 for allegedly using Craigslist to rent out houses that they did not own.
According to police, the men entered at least two vacant Carlsbad homes that were in foreclosure and then listed them for rent on the Web site Craigslist. . . . They collected possibly thousands of dollars in security deposits and rent from several people, according to paperwork that officers found on the men.
Luckily, a woman who had been burned by the men posted a warning on Craiglist and another renter who had scheduled a meeting with them saw the warning and called police who casually attended the meeting, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The men were “booked on suspicion of fraud, burglary and illegal use of the Internet. Bail was set at $300,000 each.”
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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