lady standing on my porch reading the sign on our front door. reporter: they even had to put up a sign saying our house is not for rent to warn renters who had fallen for the scam. one woman even lost a $275 deposit after seeing the ad on craigslist. it s called scraping. scammers create fraudulent rental listings using photos and details from legitimate postings already online. in this case, taking images from a real estate company s website where they were legitimately selling their home. it s very easy to hijack an existing listing. reporter: scams like these costing americans nearly $20 million in 2014 and the fbi estimates the actual number of cases could be ten times higher. linzie janis, abc news, new york. so they re saying the actual scraping comes from scraping pictures from a real listing like a house that s for sale and then they re able to use those
morning, luke gets an uneasy feeling that his neighbor s verbal threats may turn into something more. i just got the bin, and i kept my head down, looked at the floor, and started pulling it across the car park. and then it all started. he sees the lady standing mysteriously by her car and finds that really strange. reading a newspaper on the back of her car. i d never seen her do that before. and knowing that i had to pull the empty bin back across to our property, i thought that she was definitely going to confront me about this. with this in mind he warns his co-worker, perry willings. so i just said to perry that when i pull the bin across something might happen, there might be an incident, so just grab your phone and record it if anything happens. so perry does what he s told, gets into position, and starts to record. i heard some loud shouting and stuff. so i got the phone out, started videoing it, and it just all erupted from there as such, and it s just like luke
something more. i just got the bin, and i kept my head down, looked at the floor, and started pulling it across the car park. and then it all started. he sees the lady standing mysteriously by her car and finds that really strange. reading a newspaper on the back of her car. i d never seen her do that before. and knowing that i had to pull the empty bin back across to our property, i thought that she was definitely going to confront me about this. with this in mind he warns his co-worker, perry willings. so i just said to perry that when i pull the bin across then something might happen, there might be an incident, so just grab your phone and record it if anything happens. so perry does what he s told, gets into position, and starts to record. i heard some loud shouting and stuff. so i got the phone out, started videoing it, and it just all erupted from there as such, and
reporter: luke wirr is the man in the video being pounded with the rolled-up reading material. two weeks before the incident happened i took the rubbish bin out, and she was shouting from the top window with lots of swearing that i wasn t allowed to pull the bin across the car park. i ignored this and carried on and put the bin at the front of our property. luke own s birkette s garage, and it s located right next to this apartment building, essentially making him and this woman neighbors. the car park that we move the bin across we have a legal right of way across, which we have held since before the building next door was built or occupied. the lady next door has no right to tell us what to do. but on this particular morning, luke gets an uneasy feeling that his neighbor s verbal threats may turn into something more. i just got the bin, and i kept my head down, looked at the floor, and started pulling it across the car park. and then it all started. he sees the lady sta
he sees the lady standing mysteriously by her car and finds that really strange. reading a newspaper on the back of her car. i d never seen her do that before. and knowing that i had to pull the empty bin back across to our property, i thought that she was definitely going to confront me about this. with this in mind he warns his co-worker, perry willings. so i just said to perry that when i pull the bin across something might happen, there might be an incident, so just grab your phone and record it if anything happens. so perry does what he s told, gets into position, and starts to record. i heard some loud shouting and stuff. so i got the phone out, started videoing it, and it just all erupted from there as such, and it s just like luke just told me to carry on filming it. so i did. just occasionally laughing because it was sort of funny in a strange sort of way. then she actually tried to push it out on the road. so i went back and stopped it in case it hit a car or went