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| Anonymous
Cebu City, Province of Cebu, Philippines
2014-01-14 13:50:06
Rental Scam
Paypal (paypal.com) |   Looking for rent, then she will send payment using a make believe email confirmation from paypal including an amount of shipping www.mynemail.google.com... ⇒ more |
| No Name
Hawarden, Flintshire, United Kingdom
2014-01-10 20:53:04
Rental Scam
Gumtree |  Room scam ... ⇒ more |
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| Anonymous
Somewhere in Australia
2014-01-08 23:52:12
Rental Scam
| +2 Harry Smith hrysmith26@gmail.com property scam hrysmith26@gmail.com posted a reply to a classified ad for a property rental:
Hello, I am interested in renting your property .Please get back to me as soon as possible via email. Thank you
I advertised using a gmail account as the contact address. Gma... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2014-01-07 06:57:15
Rental Scam
Kijiji.com |  +3 Agustino Beppe I had a room for rent and this guy from overseas contacted me. He offered to pay 6 months rent. I could not call him due to the nature of his work, he was a ship engineer. He then told me he would send extra money to cover for the cost of shipping his "thi... ⇒ more |
| No Name
Newport News, VA, United States
2014-01-06 05:09:15
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:15345 email sent to say mrs. jenny bishop left money for humanitarian work and my personal use.... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
2014-01-03 10:30:33
Rental Scam
Other Classifieds Site | vacation club timeshare rentals from easy holiddays We bought a timeshare rental holiday at for vacation club sun city. He send us the legit holiday owners for where our name should have been filled in. We paid him the money and he would have send the filled in forms wich never happend. He went to draw the ... ⇒ more |
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| Don
Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2013-12-31 13:02:44
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:15248 After posting a room for rent advertisement on UK gumtree, the scammer targeted me. 　
Exactly same trick as described in http://www.scamdex.com/ScamTipReports/11055, with a new email address. ... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Alor Star, Kedah, Malaysia
2013-12-24 17:59:11
Rental Scam
Paypal (paypal.com) | Room rental in malaysia This is clearly an identity theft of some bad guys, with the scammer posing as an innocent Vietnamese young woman. The following are the lines the scammer has used in the email chain.
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Hello,
Is your room still available for rent? if... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2013-12-24 11:15:41
Rental Scam
Paypal (paypal.com) | rent room I did try and randomly google her email and saw that it was listed here.
she's requested me to rent a room, and wants to transfer money thru paypal.
she's quite strange and she did give me her passpor and driving licenses... ... ⇒ more |
| philippe
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2013-12-24 09:05:25
Rental Scam
| Reservation Hello,
I need to make a reservation at your place for 3 persons going on holiday for 14 nights beginning from Sunday 9th of March till Sunday 23rd of March 2014. I will need to know your rates per / night for the 3 guests and i will need you to tabulate ... ⇒ more |
| amy
Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, Canada
2013-12-22 14:51:45
Rental Scam
| vacation home seeker this company is offering holiday rentals, none of these properties exist. Sadly we were conned on an imaginary property H71099 in NYC. If you look @ the very basic website, notice how every property is available every day. This is a terrible fraud....how d... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Lubbock, TX, United States
2013-12-17 18:01:30
Rental Scam
Craigslist (craiglist.com) |  house for rent $1000/3br-Nestled between the tall trees of Lake Tanglewood on water front cov (124 Bay Rock Circle, Amarillo, TX) 3bd/2ba ... ⇒ more |
| No Name
Naples, Naples, Italy
2013-12-14 13:08:39
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:14845 Suspicious rental announce of an attractive apartment in the centre of Milan.
Same description, same approach, same mail that are already signaled on this site.... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Somewhere in United States
2013-12-09 17:18:40
Rental Scam
Other Classifieds Site | +3 Rental Listing Scam Lists too good to be true rental property that they really don't own. They say they'll send documents and keys after receiving the deposit and first month's rent. First clue was him saying there is a sign on the property for the realtor they used to go t... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Singapore, , Singapore
2013-12-09 10:53:45
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:14638
Xxxxx common room
This is what I advertised on craigslist and gumtree Singapore.
She responded to rent my room. Ask for pics if my room which I sent!!
She asked to pay me ASAP by PayPal and link me to a fake website. I told her I don't have PayPal. She m... ⇒ more |
| No Name
Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
2013-12-08 15:45:03
Rental Scam
Gumtree | RENTAL TEXT SCAM Sent from: Kim
I am ready to pay for ur gumtree room pls kindly send me the address and price to my email(sjjoes@gmail.com) please i prefer email no text.... ⇒ more |
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| Manuela Cirfera
Aquino, Provincia di Frosinone, Italy
2013-12-06 19:03:29
Rental Scam
| he contacted me answering an ad that I had posted luckily I have not been cheated, the email that he sent me did not convince me so I searched the internet and I found this site... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Excelsior, MN, United States
2013-12-06 14:22:53
Rental Scam
Yahoo | yourholidaysrentals.com I was offered a rental agreement for an apartment in NYC ,H71099. I was asked to wire funds to confirm reservation. When I didn't get an answer I decided to cancel but was not able to get a response. I tried to go to website again and realized it was a sca... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
2013-12-05 20:39:09
Rental Scam
| Western Union pre-payment to self scam http://www.area-re.it/blog/curiosita/affitti-troppo-bassi-la-truffa-e-sul-web/ (use google translate to get the gist of it)... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Somewhere in Australia
2013-12-05 04:46:58
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:14504 Linked to Homeaway.com.au site acting as an owner offering accomodation for holiday apartments.
Website is fake, address is fake, phone and fax on constant hold. I received 3 quotes from homeaway site and somehow this one was sent to my email address as ... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
2013-11-28 07:35:27
Rental Scam
| Travel Rental Team Holiday houses in popular areas, often too cheap for what they are. Offer 20% discounts and free services, ask for money to be wired into account, only communicate through email and phone apparently calls a English company. Emails under name of Dianne B Ke... ⇒ more |
| Louis Scheepers
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
2013-11-28 06:26:39
Rental Scam
| Untitled Rental Scam , ref:14321 Offered a rental property in New York at a very good price with "special offers" of discounts, airport pick-ups, no cleaning fee, no damage deposits - but when asked for an address for the rental property, nothing! when asked for a contact phone number - n... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Valeggio sul Mincio, Provincia di Verona, Italy
2013-11-26 22:41:29
Rental Scam
| FRAUD on PROLUXURYHOLIDAYS.COM booked and paid by wire transfer an home in Miami with this organisation PROLUXURYHOLIDAYS now the site is not available anymore but they are live again with an identical site http://www.yourholidaysrentals.com/ THIS MUST BE BLOCKED IMMEDIATELY !!!!
they ... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina
2013-11-26 13:42:57
Rental Scam
Other Classifieds Site | fake house rental Hi we made him a transfer for the rental andhe us not giving us the data of the property that we rented.. he is saying that the contract is off and that I have to give him my credit card number in order to get my money back... I'm from Argentina and I don'... ⇒ more |
| Anonymous
Harlesden, Brent, United Kingdom
2013-11-25 17:14:12
Rental Scam
eBay (www.ebay.com) |  Untitled Rental Scam on eBay (www.ebay.com), ref:14245 I bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 on Ebay auction from user name maiyabell091113 I paid through Ebay as usual, but 5 minutes later the money I paid was refunded and a Paypal invoice for the phone was issued to me in the name of Andrew Butler. I immediately cal... ⇒ more |
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