professor author and ace scam buster stephen jay jay wiseman give us some do's and don'ts for booking vacation rentals on line. again my motto trust me you can't trust anyone and this is something where i actually followed my own advice and found a scam when i was looking for a vacation rental the key thing here is people book everything online and it's very very easy for a scammer to just copy a legitimate vacation site and the thing is even if you're going on one of the wheel regular big cation websites the r.v.o. and others you can't be sure that it's legitimate because they get fooled as well here's the one tip that you want when they 1st of all you don't wire money because if you wire money and they get it it's gone if it's a scam but the big thing is you go online to the tax assessor's office for the city or town where that property is supposed to be if that does not match the person who is asking you to send money to that person or to that address you know it's a scam so easy to do all of the tax assessor's their offices are online you just who match him up if they match your o