Originally Posted by
peachfront
How do you know it's a real person? How do you know any of this story is true? The man could not have done this by himself as described. He would have to have a hotel employee letting him into the rooms right after the guest left. In other words, the scam does not work as described, and he is not the only criminal involved -- IF it happened at all and isn't just another welfare queen/cadillac tall tale. You have to have a master key to the rooms of the hotels in question or else someone in housekeeping/maintenance has to let you in, presumably for a cut of the "take." A homeless guy has an "insider" at ALL of these hotels? Really?
Hotel housekeeping and/or front-desk staff can be unwitting enablers of such a scam.
Once checked into a hotel, it becomes even easier for this kind of scam to work and perpetuate itself for quote some time by way of fraudulent misrepresentation in-person or on-the-phone or online.