I was once listing a sublease on Craigslist and got a too-good-to-be-true offer from someone who was going to pay me a few months' rent to help them get on the lease when they couldn't appear in person. I probably responded a little longer than I should have before bailing out, but I've always wondered what the eventual scam was.

It was a dirt cheap lease in Cincinnati more than a decade ago, so even being as broke as I was, I had an urge to "pay to see."