You may remember getting emails from a guy in Nigeria wanting your help to transfer money.  Now he wants to rent you a house.  You can get a great house for very low rent.  A realtor had his online listing hijacked and advertised on Craig’s List.  You can read his full story by clicking here.

The scam was thorough enough to be believable.  But if you adopt a policy to never wire funds to Africa you’ll probably be fine.