and tomorrow morning.elian: thank you very much. met himof the state department and thedivision of protection alconsumer alerts us tous about scamsreal estate and rental.the tendency is to impersonateby agents who are going to usethose current listings forto try to steal yoursecurity deposits. foravoid these deceptions recentlyI had and this is what he told me.thank you very much for beingwith us this afternoon.>> Thank you very much forhave me with you.>> this time I would liketell them about a problem thatIt happens that it affects very manypeople, including many ofour community.>> at the moment we have receivedmore than 50 complaints and almost 20,particular in a couple of monthswhere people have reportedwho have lost between 100 to 150and up to over $ 5000. falling downthe individual pretends to be whatthat is in charge of someonerent or simplythey invent someproperty characteristicsthat doesn’t really exist.elian: these people areimpersonating and they have already been ablesteal wings of 1.7 millionolars. what do theauthorities to preventcontinue?>> one of the things is whenthe person establishedwork with our agenciesand try to get this backmoney.you have to educate the consumer,educate people who arethere we hope that the one who islistening to you knowingalso share thatinformation with neighbors.Elian: What recommendations do youhas the community todetect who is the leithym andwho is not an agentleitimate real estate?>> those agents have to belicensed by us tothe state department ofnew york and siba have anotherwebsite you can investigate.there is a very easy toolto use to put thename of the person forverify that this person islicensed. don’t pay the moneyin advance because manysometimes we don’t have that communitythat money is going to be receivedif certain are not carried outSteps. also have everythingwritten. we know thatas alid as the writings.
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