EG Realtor Gets Creepy Phone Call

Several weeks after Fall River, Mass. police warned real estate agents about a man calling female Realtors and creeping them out with personal questions and date requests, an East Greenwich Realtor got an upsetting phone call of her own.

Police said the Realtor, who works for a local agency, got a call on Nov. 5 from a man who said he won the lottery and was in the market for a house.

The man referenced a specific listing on Miss Fry Drive and then told the Realtor that he knew her from “a time they met at Dunkin’ Donuts,” according to a police report.

The problem was that the Relator had never met the man and then he began to call her “honey” and asked her out to dinner, commenting on her blonde hair.

The man said he was from Lincoln and ”had a lot of money and wanted to take her out.”

The woman said that she saw a report out of Fall River that showed real estate agents in that area were getting calls similar to the one she received.

In those calls, the man typically behaved as if he knew the agents and sometimes made references to their interests and hobbies, as if he spent time looking up the Realtors on Facebook before making the calls.

The creepy calls have prompted many agents to require clients to come to their offices before meeting to show properties to be safe.

East Greenwich police reported the incident to Fall River police.

Though the man called from a blocked phone number, he did provide a name that matches a man who was born in 1976 and has multiple addresses in several Rhode Island communities.