Online real estate fraud stopped by local agent

by Kate Shunney

A Morgan County real estate agent tipped off a Maryland man that a property he’s owned in Great Cacapon for 40 years had been put up for sale, alerting him to what turned out to be an attempted real estate fraud.

Marlin Strand, who has owned his place on Rouse Mountain since 1983, said a person pretending to be him and using falsified ID documents had listed his property for sale on…