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True, but you can still do a confused deputy attack. The fraudster hires a property manager, informs them that they would like to remove the sign because they wish the list the property for sale. Either that or they con a realtor they're working with into doing it. The unknowing realtor, eager for the commission, knows a guy who can take it down.

>>teeray+(OP)
There's always something that can happen in any scenario. Social engineering, hiring locals, deeper forms of identity theft, or worse. The possibilities never hit 0, they just become a lot less profitable (and a lot riskier) a scam to try to run.

>>teeray+(OP)
Who's paying for it? Are they working for free?

>>1970-0+Y6
No, but paying someone $300 is cheap when you hope to get a check for several hundred thousand in a few months. (even if the scam is only to get the earnest money that is still a $300 investment for the final thousand or two you make - with very little work)

>>teeray+(OP)
For those like me who didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem

>>bluGil+zd
That's a lot of work plus money transfer paper trail for something like this.

>>1970-0+Y6
The realtor might pay for it or even do it themselves. It would take 5 minutes with a reciprocating saw. Or the scammer tells the realtor "never mind that" and the realtor tells the buyer.

>>zamada+t4
Yes, locks aren’t there to prevent the determined thief. They are for the 99% of other opportunists that will move on to an easier target immediately when they see your lock is harder to defeat

>>teeray+(OP)
The idea is just to avoid being the softest target. The scammers attempting this fraud don't want to do all the work you describe. They'll just move on to the next vacant property.

>>margal+vF
Presumably the money trail leeds to the Caymon islands or other country where they won't assist investigation.