Hey everyone it's Robby here with RobD and you are listening to the Property Podcast.

Now it's a tricky market right now, a tricky market to do deals. We'll talk about our

experiences of that but more importantly we're going to get into tactics on how you can

get yourself a great deal in this market. We've got some basic tactics and some advanced

strategies.

Welcome to the Property Podcast where we take time out from the business of doing hundreds

of property transactions a year for our clients and bring you some of the knowledge that we've

gained along the way for free. Now deals of course are at the heart of property investment.

You need to be able to access strong deals so this is going to be such a valuable episode

because we're going to be teaching you some tricks I'm sure you won't have thought about

for doing exactly that. And we do our best to bring the value every week so do make sure you're

following the show on your favourite podcasting app because we've got some great episodes coming up.

On Apple Podcasts, a little plus button, it's follow, on Spotify, get every episode of

the Property Podcasts straight to your phone. Now it's time for our new story of the week and it's

not a nice one I'm afraid. The headline reads, phone and online copycat scams now make up a third

of money fraud. This is from this is money and the reason we're bringing this story to your attention

is because we have been exposed to this as well so part of the scams are people pretending to be

influencers making accounts that look identical to the influencer that you may be interested in

and then changing the name by the slightest amount and then contacting you by a DM to say hey how

you're doing and then eventually offering you an investment. I can't believe that it's that bad

that now it's a third of all money fraud it's terrifying. And Rob and I have been impersonated

on our social accounts and people have been contacted and the attention of the scammer

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