Phony Realtor Scammed $22,800 From Victims Looking for Harlem Apartments
(DNAINFO) Gustavo Solis— A woman posing as a realtor scammed $22,800 from at least five victims looking for apartments in Harlem’s red-hot real estate market.
Koudedja Diawara, 55, has been arrested twice since March for promising Harlem rentals and accepting rent payments but not delivering on the pad, according to her criminal complaint.
Exactly one week after being arrested for grand larceny on March 18, Diawara collected $1,500 from a man who thought he was paying his first month’s rent, prosecutors charge.
The phony realtor was arrested Thursday and hit with four more counts of grand larceny. Between July 2014 and May 2015, she allegedly collected between $4,000 and $5,000 from her victims totaling $22,800, records show.