Even though it’s nothing new, we’ve recently started seeing a resurgence of reader e-mails asking if a really awesome-sounding rental listing on Craigslist might be a scam, so we figured it was time ...

Valerie Kumra was sitting at her house in Dillon Beach, a small waterfront community off Bodega Bay, one afternoon when she heard a knock on the door. This was in the fall of 2020, and COVID-19 cases ...

The rental listing looked like Rhiana Scholz's Ocean City condo, with the same balcony overlooking blue ocean and promises of hot sun, boardwalk fries and lazy beach days. The ad for Scholz's condo ...