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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (15085)	11/14/2003 4:20:02 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

XYZ...this topic which I apparently launched was definitely not intended to "scare" anyone. It was to prepare them. I used to keep a file of warnings we got from the police and thru the MLS about the current crop of delinquents who were victimizing or attempting to victimize people in real estate situations. It contained descriptions of the folks, license plate numbers, and their modus operandi. The latest incident I know of was reported in the newspaper recently---seems a mother and her grown son were perpetrating their own petty larceny crime wave at open houses in the DC area. Trouble is, we rarely hear of anyone being tracked down and caught. And I never woulda guessed, until I got into real estate and the police told us, that there are still people in this world who are true gypsies---real crooks-by-virtue-of-inherited-genes. They apparently sneak in and out of towns all over the country before anyone knows who or what ripped them off.