I was one of the early victims of COVID related crime. Last week I was trying to rent a house off the website Zillow, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The person who claimed to be the owner said he couldn’t meet me because he was in day two of COVID self-quarantine, so we did the paperwork remotely.
It turned out to be a scam operated out of Southern California (appearently Zillow does not vet their clients.) I’m expecting to get the deposit money back from the bank, but people who are not being allowed to work are finding other ways to feed their family.
