A Tacoma, Wash. homeowner, not the occupant, arrives at the dwelling to find it trashed from top to bottom with virtually everything that wasn’t nailed down – and a few things that were – carted off by individuals who were under the mistaken impression that everything was free for the taking.
How’d they get that impression?
An advertisement on Craigslist told them so, according to this report on a Seattle television station’s Web site.
The homeowner had recently evicted a tenant.
She also says she believes that whoever placed the ad held a personal grudge against her.
Hmm, wonder who the suspect might be?
And can’t Craigslist have procedures in place to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen? Perhaps they could include them on their “Avoiding Scams and Fraud” page.
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