{"id":149213,"date":"2025-01-24T00:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/looking-for-a-new-place-in-2025-how-to-know-if-a-rental-listing-is-a-scam-fraud-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:14:00","slug":"looking-for-a-new-place-in-2025-how-to-know-if-a-rental-listing-is-a-scam-fraud-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/looking-for-a-new-place-in-2025-how-to-know-if-a-rental-listing-is-a-scam-fraud-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a new place in 2025? How to know if a rental listing is a scam, fraud experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAvoid falling for real estate scams when looking for rental listings. Here’s what to watch out for.
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\nSource : cnbc.com
\nRead more…Looking for a new place in 2025? How to know if a rental listing is a scam, fraud experts say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avoid falling for real estate scams when looking for rental listings. Here’s what to watch...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-COF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157959,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rental-fraud-the-facebook-and-gumtree-scam-targeting-desperate-tenants\/","url_meta":{"origin":149213,"position":0},"title":"Rental fraud: the Facebook and Gumtree scam targeting desperate tenants","date":"July 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Posing as a landlord, fraudsters post adverts for affordable properties to lure victims into parting with deposits upfrontYou\u2019re desperately hunting for somewhere to live and scouring rental sites. 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