The Better Business Bureau has published an extremely useful article about a specific scam targeting renters as the summer moving season approaches.

This scam always features a landlord who is “out of town”, cannot show the property, and creates a false sense of urgency to get renters to advance deposit money to them prior to seeing the property. 

There are additional details of the scam and strategies for renters to protect themselves in the article.  

Read the full article at https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/16908-scam-alert-rental-cons-cash-in-on-stressed-out-movers