03-23-2023, 09:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2023, 09:49 PM by Space Karen.)
His house was definitely not for sale. But someone listed his home for sale on a website called For Sale By Owner — FSBO.com — which has a partnership with Redfin. That meant his home ended up listed as “for sale” on their site at that drastically low price.
What happened to his home is part of a much larger scheme where a hacker takes over someone’s Airbnb account, uses it to book a vacation rental but lists it for sale by owner in an effort to show the house to potential buyers, steal their earnest money and then vanish.
“What I’m most concerned about is how easy FSBO.com was able to have somebody list it because that was the crux of the issue. Redfin was just the amplification of that,” the homeowner said. “As I was reaching out to FSBO.com and talking to the support rep, telling them, ‘Hey, this scam has occurred, how has this happened? Can you track them? Do you have an IP address?’ And he kind of chuckled, and said, ‘You know, this happens all the time. I’ve got a news article for you from the East Coast. Sorry to hear it’s now here in the West Coast.'”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/da...r-AA18XHh2
What happened to his home is part of a much larger scheme where a hacker takes over someone’s Airbnb account, uses it to book a vacation rental but lists it for sale by owner in an effort to show the house to potential buyers, steal their earnest money and then vanish.
“What I’m most concerned about is how easy FSBO.com was able to have somebody list it because that was the crux of the issue. Redfin was just the amplification of that,” the homeowner said. “As I was reaching out to FSBO.com and talking to the support rep, telling them, ‘Hey, this scam has occurred, how has this happened? Can you track them? Do you have an IP address?’ And he kind of chuckled, and said, ‘You know, this happens all the time. I’ve got a news article for you from the East Coast. Sorry to hear it’s now here in the West Coast.'”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/da...r-AA18XHh2