SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A San Francisco model moved to New York City this August to pursue his modeling and fashion career dreams.

Miguel Marchese paid more than $6,000 to a man who claimed to be subletting an apartment in Manhattan's Hells Kitchen neighborhood. Marchese said he "moved with two suitcases, a lot of ambition and aspirations."

"I stumbled across a post ... of a really good apartment. A really good deal in Hells Kitchen. I didn't think it was going to be true. I'm not someone who gets scammed," Marchese said in an Instagram video.

The model said he toured the two-bedroom apartment in-person and met the landlord, named Nick. Two days later, Nick contacted to model, said he was picked above several other people who toured, and sent him a lease to sign through Docusign.

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