Watch Out For Scammers In The Housing FB Group

Just a reminder for y'all to be extra careful when looking for housing options in the UMich housing facebook group that was linked to on the housing megathread. This one. There are quite a lot of scammers making fake posts in the FB group. It's basically impossible to moderate it too so you gotta just be careful when reaching out to people when you're interested in a posting.

Couple things to look out for:

• The scammers usually only offer virtual tours of the unit to be rented out, and will use whatever reason they can come up with to avoid ever having to meet in person for a tour
• They might be asking for a huge up front payment
• Once you've reached out to them, they might get impatient and start spamming you if you don't reply immediately (pretty common for spammers in general) to them
• Their FB profile looks fake af (no activities, bots liking their posts... etc)

Stay safe, folks.