This past week, I binged "Inventing Anna," about Anna Delvey (really Sorokin), who was sent to Rikers for pretending(?) to be a German heiress and bilking a bunch of NYC hotels and various wealthy and glamorous people out of tons of money. I also watched "The Tinder Swindler," about an Israeli fraudster who posed as the son of a billionaire and tricked women into sending him tons of money. And I'm super excited for the new show "The Dropout," starring Amanda Seyfried playing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (whom I know very little about, but I wouldn't be surprised if she grifted people out of tons of money). 

Scammers are so having a moment right now.

But it's one thing to be entertained by these scamps in shows (because, after all, there is no way we'd fall for them in real life) and actually being targeted by a scammer in real life (because it unfortunately happens all the time).

Of course, we want to believe our residents and potential renters are all honest. And most of them are! But it's important to protect yourself just in case. Here are some suggestions to keep you and your apartment community from being scammed.

• Run a credit check before you allow anyone to sign a lease.
• Also, make sure the lease is a written lease. No oral agreements, ever!
• Make sure a lawyer looks over anything signed. 

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