Oh, craigslist. This summer we all learned about the need to carefully evaluate whether the submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom is really a jerkface software developer who just wants to put pictures of your engorged body parts on the internet. This weekend, a lesson about how it’s not just the “casual encounters” that have turned scamtastic. Some people in Renton recently found out that they’d rented their house from the wrong guy:

Mike and Lia Lester claim that they and another couple rented the house after seeing an ad on the Craigslist web site.

They met a man they thought was the owner of the house and paid him $5,700 in rent and security deposits and he gave them the keys to the home.

Now, they say they’ve been scammed. [komo]

So much for the the golden days of craigslist, when prospective renters needed only to worry about whether “cozy” meant “cramped” or how much the landlord was stretching the neighborhood boundaries before checking out a place.

(via digg [#])