Listen Up: Four Scams That Fool New Yorkers
Let’s not get ripped off today, okay.
City dwellers pride themselves on being smart. We are not the kind of people who are going to hold money for an importunate prince in Nigeria, or to send our bank account information to some Joe who has the skills to copy the eBay logo in an e-mail.
We do, however, need places to live, and sometimes our need for housing can cause us to be a little less wary than we ought to be. I’ve seen it happen before to clients: They see their dream apartment, and the sophistication and cynicism that normally keep them from being conned fall away.