Loretta Donaldson Dr Loretta Donaldson They posted on Apartments.com for an apartment for rent for $700.00 where normal rates are $3,000. Asked for commitment fee of $690.00 up front. Santa Monica California

This woman claims to have a condo in Santa Monica. She claims she and her family work for the military healthcare systems and are being transferred to other cities.

They decided to rent their place out instead of selling it.   They asked for lots of personal information including address, phone number etc.  Then they emailed to say they approve my profile and would like to forward documents to me via FEDEX from their attorney but needed the security deposit to confirm commitment.  Apartments in that area currently rent for $3,000.00 and higher. Their English appears like the scam is from some other country where English is not a national language. Too many errors.

There is a real estate sign infront of the apartment but these people said they had originally hired the real estate company to sell the property but decided to rent it themselves instead. So to ignore the sign. They had cancelled their sales agreement with them.