Most students living away from home will need to find living accommodation. And where better to do this than one of the many online property services advertising properties to rent? There is just one problem though. That property you really love, may not actually exist!
There is a growing problem of criminals advertising [...]
Tag Archive: scams
Fraudsters target student tenants
Possible scam with tenants’ deposit money
There has been quite a bit of publicity over the last few months about agents and the unjust charges they impose on both tenants and also the landlords they represent. The CAB did a report on this which I wrote about here. I have now been contacted by a tenant telling me about [...]
A new landlord scam
A new landlord scam has been highlighted on the Directgov web-site.
Tenants answering ads on web-sites such as Gumtree, fish4 of Craig’s List are being asked to ‘prove that they have enough money’ by transferring money to a friend or relative.
They are then asked to send a scanned copy of the transaction receipt to the ‘landlord’ [...]
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The Advance Payment Scan – another internet scam to watch out for
We have written on the Landlord Law Blog about scammers before. Ben Reeve has kindly drawn my attention to this article on the BBC web-site which warns of yet another internet scam, the “advance fee fraud”.
This is where you are asked to wire money to a friend or relative to prove that you can [...]
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