Scam Tip Report #18780 - Smart rentals is now Smart vacation INC
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| Pol
Washington, DC, United States
2014-04-28 16:57:44
Rental Scam
|  +3 Smart rentals is now Smart vacation INC I looked for an apartment to rent in NY in Home Away and received and email form Smart Vacation about a great apartment too good to be true, but I looked for info and did not find anything, good or bad. Until I came to this page and found a lot of mails from smart rentals and that they are exactly the same, based in UK and you have to pay 100% to a bank in England. Here is the mail
Thank you for your inquiry.
New York Vacation (Web address: http://smartvacationinc.com/new-york-property-hyt099-63.html) is currently available for your dates May 5, 2014 –May 9, 2014 (4 nights)
We have a special offer. The breakdown would be as follows:
$1100.00 (4 nights).
$ 0.00 (Departure Cleaning Fee).
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$1100.00 +
-20% (Discount for special offer only)
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$880.00 (TOTAL/Tax included)
Cancellation 100% refundable 15 Days prior to arrival.
Rate is inclusive of:
Airport transfers, round trip.
Daily housekeeping.
Wireless internet access.
Free Laundry service.
For this special offer payment of $880.00 must be completed within 10 days (to secure this booking).
If you would like to proceed I will just need your name, phone number and home address for the contract and I will forward as e-mail attachment. Please let me know if you have any questions and how I can further assist you.
We look forward to being of service to you.
Kind regards
Rony Davis
Property Manager
www.smartvacationinc.com |
Follow Ups/Extra Information. Most recent is listed first.
| Anonymous () Added the following extra information on :2014-05-08 19:38:49 |
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Upon trying to book a property on vrbo this company replied with a too good to be true offer as follows (for a property for which they would not provide a street address"
Thank you for your inquiry.
Palm Spring Vacation (Web address: http://www.paradisevacationinc.com/palm-spring-property-dr8139-119.html) is currently available for your dates May 23, 2014 –May 26, 2014 (3 nights)
We have a special offer. The breakdown would be as follows:
$2800.00 (3 nights ).
$ 0.00 (Departure Cleaning Fee).
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$2800.00 +
-20% (Discount for special offer only)
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$2240.00 (TOTAL/Tax included)
Cancellation 100% refundable 15 Days prior to arrival.
Rate is inclusive of:
Airport transfers, round trip.
Daily housekeeping.
Wireless internet access.
Free Laundry service.
For this special offer payment of $2240.00 must be completed within 10 days (to secure this booking). If you would like to proceed I will just need your name, phone number and home address for the contract and I will forward as e-mail attachment. Please let me know if you have any questions and how I can further assist you.
We look forward to being of service to you.
Kind regards
Sarah Boule
www.paradisevacationinc.com
| Helen (Somewhere in Australia) Added the following extra information on :2014-05-07 16:52:09 |
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I was looking for accommodation in NYC and received an offer from this man claiming to be Rony Davis from smart vacation inc for a rate that was FAR too good to be true in a location that was prime.
Upon further e-mail back and forth and investigation, this has SCAM written all over the place! DO NOT BOOK WITH THESE SCAM ARTISTS!
RED FLAGS:
* On their website, there is NO contact number and on their about page you can view the descriptions of staff. Rony Davis is listed as a director and in description he is referred to as SHE, what kind of professional website would overlook this?! Furthermore, a director of a company would NOT be sending emails of rates, it is the property managers job to do this!
* When sending them emails, they reply with bad spelling errors, no mention of from who and doesn't address email to your name.. just a 'hi,..'
*They want FULL 100% payment by BANK TRANSFER ONLY… to London!
* When asked about contact phone number, they always reply with only email assistance… no way to trace them!
* what kind of big firm would have a gmail account!!? For a director's position as well, only using the gmail account!
DO NOT TRUST THIS SMART VACATION INC!!!!!
Scam EmailThank you for your inquiry.
We have a special offer. The breakdown would be as follows:
$4300.00 (35 nights).
$ 0.00 (Departure Cleaning Fee).
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$4300.00 +
-20% (Discount for special offer only)
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$3440.00 (TOTAL/Tax included)
Cancellation 100% refundable 15 Days prior to arrival.
Rate is inclusive of:
Airport transfers, round trip.
Daily housekeeping.
Wireless internet access.
Free Laundry service.
For this special offer payment of $3900.00 must be completed within 10 days (to secure this booking).
If you would like to proceed I will just need your name, phone number and home address for the contract and I will forward as e-mail attachment. Please let me know if you have any questions and how I can further assist you.
We look forward to being of service to you.
Kind regards
Rony Davis
Property Manager
www.smartvacationinc.com
| Anonymous () Added the following extra information on :2014-05-01 14:32:37 |
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After emailing VRBO for some rentals in Paris, I received this response with no referral of which property I had inquired about:
Scam Email
