Going off site is a common way to get scammed, but not always. 

I got on the CL flag help forum and asked them about it and they said that since there is no category for RTO that means its not allowed on CL.... plus the general perception of RTO is that its a scam.... so people flag without even reading..I did an RTO last year and advertised with CL got tons of calls...and now she is getting financed for the house.

This is the exact scam company in the thread https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/185362-please-help-41-000-paid-to-a-guru-company-to-be-refundedThey change their name constantly to stay ahead of the law and are being investigated by several state attorney generals offices.Currently Tarek and Christina El Moussa from HGTVs Flip or Flop have sold their souls and are the spokes people that are leading to ripping of their desperate fans.

Which bring up another scam, I buy a pool, I pawn the pool off to brokers who represent the pool and they market as if they are the managers.....the chain begins, and those managers may be in my system, I might not even own the pool yet.

Scam or not?

Being conservative, and perhaps having an over sensitive scam radar, I'd pass.

. - lots of "LinkedIn requests" are actually just scammers trying to snatch personal info; I ignore all Linkedin stuff these days due to the extent of spam/scams.

Turns out that the 'landlord' was a scam artist, who scoped out empty houses, changed the locks, took on the name of the owner, and rented the property.http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Impostor-rented-out-someone-else-s-home-4981397.phpWhat if you were the owner of that vacant house and found people living in it, who signed a lease in good faith and spent all their money on deposit and first month's rent?

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing either they are a scam (not sure what their goal was?)

My associate's response was, "I figured it was a scam since they never called me back after contacting them."