| Internet Apartment for Rent Scam and Over Payments
Belleville Police are reminding anyone searching the internet for an apartment to watch out for online scams.
In some cases, a person posing as a landlord says he or she is out of the country or Province and requires a deposit on the rental. Once the money is paid, usually through a money transfer, the victim discovers there isn't actually a rental.
The scam isn't a new one and police spoke to the media in January 2009 after a local woman lost a thousand dollars to a person holding himself out to be the landlord of fully furnished
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