Fake apartment ad scams are growing on social media

The ads look real and appealing, but experts say beware of apartment hunting on social media apps like Instagram and Tik Tok. Many of these videos we found are posted by scammers impersonating real agents and manipulating real listings. The problem getting worse.In just the first 5 months of this year, the FBI received more than 130 real estate complaints referencing social media sites with people reporting about $600,000 lost to scammers. about the same number of complaints received in all of last year. NB ...