Tenants who applied provided false info

[Mark Forest]

I just had a husband and wife who seemed excited about my house fill out my credit application. They each paid me $30.00. When I got home I noticed one of them had not entered his social security number so I called them with the supplied phone numbers. I got a recorded message that the phones were not in service. The female had entered an e-mail and when I tried that I got a message back that there is no such e-mail address.

I don't get it. They are out $60.00 and have not made any effort to call me. Am I missing something here?

Coincidentally, my Zillow entry for this home was compromised by someone using the picture and address of my house with low rent and someone else’s number. I don’t know if this is connected to the other incident but both things seem weird. I of course flagged the entry and reported it to Zillow.