The current recession has left many homes vacant and unattended by authorities or the banks. In NYC people have the tendency to post vacant properties online and provide to steal people's money. It's done by the a team of expert thrives: electricity (if there's any) is provided by neighboring apartments to trick the occupant into believing that there is service. In addition they always offer wifi: the neighbor changes the name in the wifi and they will have you to connect via cellular phone to trick you.
If a person is renting you a room in their "spare" property ask to see some information like a light bill to validate that the person actually owns this vacant space and make sure that the bill is current! Also validate ownership using NY's open records files to match the names to the properties.
Remember it's hard for the police to recover stolen money from craigslist. People are collectively cheated out of millions per year. Its always better to deal business with post office money orders! If a person cannot accept a government money order then they are not legitimate business owners.
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