Which One of You Florida Baws is Stalking the Feet of Female Real Estate Agents?

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Angela Julian, a Pinellas County realtor, said the man told her there was an ant on her foot before bending down and grabbing her shoe.

"He bends down and starts unbuckling my shoe and caressing my foot, and I just thought that that was really weird," Julian said.

"At the same time, he's fidgeting with his phone, petting my foot... I think he's trying to take some type of video of my skirt. It was really alarming," she said.

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More than half a dozen women have now come forward with similar accounts of encounters with the same man, whom 10 Tampa Bay is not identifying because he has not been arrested or charged.

They say he allegedly uses fake house tour bookings or drops in at open houses to get close to female agents, specifically, to make contact with their feet.

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Les Hein, owner of Tampa Home Photos and a moderator for a local realtors' group, says the man appears to be exploiting publicly available information to locate agents.

"He is searching Zillow, he's using everything that everyone has public access to and that is concerning," Hein said.

He warned that open houses, where up to 30 people can attend with little to no vetting, make agents especially vulnerable.

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