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: The Home Equity Theft Reporter

California Lawmaker Moves To Elevate Crime Of Landlord Impersonation To Felony Grand Theft

By r morris

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports:The glut of vacant foreclosed homes has inspired con artists to concoct a new scam: posing as landlords to swindle prospective tenants out of rent and deposit money. Cases of landlord impersonation have jumped throughout California in the past couple of years, according to sheriffs and legal aid clinics."With a lot of foreclosures, the property sits empty for a

Full post as published by The Home Equity Theft Reporter on April 17, 2010 (boomark / email).

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