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Dear Customers, Here we aim to inform you of some of the scams that are committed in this kind of deal. Below, you will find a description of some known scams as well as the known e-mails to lead you into them. Our aim is therefore to make this common knowledge and to try and prevent you from ever becoming involved in such a scheme. We also request your collaboration in informing us if anything similar happened to you so that we can publicise the scam here as well as the e-mail that led you into it. Scams:
1 – The owner is contacted, normally in poor English, by someone who says that he wishes to rent the house (normally in low season). At a certain point the individual says that the house is not for him but for another Customer, friend or family member and that s/he will send a cheque for a higher value. S/he then asks you to return the excess amount since this is his/her commission (the cheque is normally for an amount much greater than the rental price, 3 times more, for instance). The cheque that is sent is false, but seeing as it is a cheque from a foreign bank (Germany, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom) it means you are not familiar with it and deposit it. Upon depositing the cheque, your Bank will confirm its veracity, a process that sometimes takes up to two weeks and during which time the amount may appear in your Book Balance, which means we may be tempted to send the difference. List of known e-mails: |
