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Is this a scam? (Renting)
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A good trick is to right click on an image which will give you the option to search google for the same image
How? When you RC on an image there is not option to search.....
There is an option if you highlight text on a web page.....
Just interested....20 plus years as a mortgage adviser for Halifax (have now retired), and I have pretty much seen it all....:D0 -
martin1959 wrote: »How? When you RC on an image there is not option to search.....
There is an option if you highlight text on a web page.....
Just interested....
Sorry I should have mentioned it seems to only work if you're using google chrome as your browser.
If you're using Internet Explorer (Why would you do that) it does not work.
In Chrome you just right click on a photo and then select search google. This then searches for any other websites or gum tree adverts for the same image. It's very handy as in the OP's case they would probably see multiple adverts using the same images but showing different towns.
It would also bring up where the image was used originally which was probably in a bona fide advert that the scammer just copied the picture from0
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