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 Scams in Tallahassee

 Landlord2Landlord member, Anita S. from Tallahassee Fl.writes:

"I was reading your article on Scams. Someone recently tried to

scam me. First a lady e-mailed me looking for a place to live as she was

going to attend FSU. After 2 e-mails a man, pretending to be her father

started sending e-mails saying his travel agent was sending me the money for

his daughters apartment and they sent too much money and wanted me to take

out 2 months rent and send him the difference back for his daughters travel

arrangements to Tallahassee. After two months of back and forth e-mails due

to problems in sending the Money Orders, I finally received the Money

Orders; 4 different WalMart Money Orders for $850.00 each. You can only get

Money Orders up to $500.00 each unless you go to the United States Postal

Service. The printed account number was in a greenish/black color as well

as the R, which is before the registration number on the left side. The

normally pink circle in the lower middle of a Money Order (which disappears

when you scratch it and then reappears is a legal authentic proof) was

Yellow. I notified the local police and gave them all the e-mails, the

envelope and Money Orders."