Vicky Nguyen
speaker
247 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Jul
Vicky Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you know what the going market rate is.
And if you're looking at an ad and the rent is just so much lower than the market rate, steer clear.
And then if you are going to contact someone, look them up separately.
Don't just call the number or the email that is in the listing itself.
Look up that person, find their actual real estate website, and contact them that way because that way you'll know you're talking to the real representative for that property.
And try your best not to send money sight unseen.
By the way, you should know in a city like New York,
The maximum that anyone can charge you for a rental application is actually $20.
No way.
So figure out what that is in your area.
They shouldn't be able to charge you $300, $400.
And if they are, that's also a red flag.
So first things first, report it to your bank, see if you can get the money back.
The next thing I would do after you try to get your money back is report the scam to your local police and then also report the listing to the social media site so that hopefully they can take it down.
We did talk with TikTok and Instagram and they say that they're proactively removing literally tens of thousands of these accounts.
However, the scammers are constantly evolving and it's a little bit like a game of whack-a-mole.
If the price is too good to be true and you are not using your credit card, which has a lot of fraud protection, be very, very careful.
Hey, Vicky. Hey, Andrea. Love talking about vacations.
That is so true. In fact, there's a brand new scam I want to tell you about, Andrea, that I just heard about. It was through a friend of a friend who said she was working with what she thought was a legitimate travel agent. This person would say, book your travel through me. I will put it on my, quote, corporate card, and that's how you get the discounts. And this victim told friends.
They told family. And over the course of a year or so, people were booking vacations that were extremely discounted, and they were paying via Zelle to this travel agent.
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