{"id":107855,"date":"2025-08-15T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/im-a-real-estate-agent-who-thought-i-was-too-smart-to-fall-for-a-scam-then-i-almost-sold-a-200000-lot-to-a-fraudster\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:27:34","slug":"im-a-real-estate-agent-who-thought-i-was-too-smart-to-fall-for-a-scam-then-i-almost-sold-a-200000-lot-to-a-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/im-a-real-estate-agent-who-thought-i-was-too-smart-to-fall-for-a-scam-then-i-almost-sold-a-200000-lot-to-a-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a real estate agent who thought I was too smart to fall for a scam. Then I almost sold a $200000 lot to a fraudster."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pretorius.Courtesy of Adam Pretorius<br \/>\nAdam Pretorius, a real estate agent in Iowa, was nearly scammed into selling a $200,000 lot.Pretorius said fewer safeguards are in place to\u2026 [+6843 chars]<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/vacant-land-scams-real-estate-agent-explains-2025-8' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pretorius.Courtesy of Adam Pretorius Adam Pretorius, a real estate agent in Iowa, was nearly scammed into selling a $200,000 lot.Pretorius said fewer safeguards are in place to\u2026 [+6843 chars]read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["79"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1782217958;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:107956;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:108058;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:103653;}}}}"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}