Apartment Rental & Over Payment Scams Apartment Rental & Over Payment Scams Internet Apartment for Rent Scam and Over Payments Belleville Police are reminding anyone searching the internet for an apartment to watch out for online scams.   In some cases, a person posing as a landlord says he or she is out of the country or Province and requires a deposit on the rental. Once the money is paid, usually through a money transfer, the victim discovers there isn't actually a rental.   The scam isn't a new one and police spoke to the media in January 2009 after a local woman lost a thousand dollars to a person holding himself out to be the landlord of fully furnished