Daniel Pietschnig and Jessica Madalena fell victim to a scammer who swindled them out of a $32,430 down payment.
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- Daniel Pietschnig and Jessica Madalena thought they were emailing their real-estate agent.
- But it was really a scammer who had been sending the couple messages for weeks.
- The scammer convinced them to wire their $32,430 down payment to a fake bank account and vanished.
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