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  by sportinglife1
 
I posted on Craigslist that these were scammers and that there there are no $70 apartments in summer here.

They created a new site within hours and are now posting the same apartment for $300

http://www.comfortableapartmentflats.com
  by Michelle
 
The site is fake and was created on Created 23-jun-2010
Registrar: RANGER REGISTRATION (MADEIRA) LLC.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Dates: Created 23-jun-2010 Updated 23-jun-2010 Expires 23-jun-2011
DNS Servers: DNS010.D.REGISTER.COM DNS053.C.REGISTER.COM DNS120.B.REGISTER.COM DNS191.A.REGISTER.COM
Registrant:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: comfortableapartmentflats.com
Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Funchal, Madeira 9000-039
PT
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email: [email protected]


Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: comfortableapartmentflats.com
Created on..............: 2010-06-23
Expires on..............: 2011-06-23

Administrative Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: comfortableapartmentflats.com
Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Funchal, Madeira 9000-039
PT
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email: [email protected]


Technical Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: comfortableapartmentflats.com
Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Funchal, Madeira 9000-039
PT
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email: [email protected]


DNS Servers:
dns010.d.register.com
dns053.c.register.com
dns120.b.register.com
dns191.a.register.com
  by Michael
 
I'm on the job ;)

Can I ask you though to be a bit more careful with your wording next time on craigslist? We don't want to educate the scammers. Feel free to expose them as scammers, but don't give them hints what they're doing wrong. That way they keep making the same mistakes and it makes it easier for us to find them :)

Site won't live long, I give it 24-48 hours.
  by tonka
 
Excellent finding this scam site. I just checked and its still up. I can see why its easy to get fooled as the site looks ok, certainly not as professional as the legit mainstay sites but nonetheless (and most unfortunately) they seem to know exactly what their doing.