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  • Two Primary Vacation Rental Scams

    There are essentially 2 main vacation rental scams. Be aware of them and do whatever you need to do to protect yourself from them. 1) A fake “renter” contacts a real owner and requests to rent the property. The fake renter then sends a check to the owner as a security deposit to rent the property. But...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by Milan Matchev on 07-27-2008

  • Vacation Home Email Scam from Mr. Francis Basil

    This vacation rental email inquiry has been reported to be a scam: "My Name is Mr Francis Basil,am the director of Hydrotech Consult Ltd United Kingdom, we have a group of Six delegates that are attending a training seminar in Costa Rica. Please let us know if you have accommodation for our member...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by Mirko on 03-31-2008

  • Vacation Rental Fraud Attempt by Paul Markson

    Here is the scam email being sent through several vacation rental portals to vacation home owners from a supposed 'Paul Markson': "Dear Sir/Madam, Its very not that easy to look for a long term holidays over the net,i have take a closer look at your property which i saw in US Holidays web...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by Mirko on 03-30-2008

  • Re: Generic Email Scam

    Well, when I read such emails I often visualize a Nigerian guy, with sandals and dirty clothes, sitting in some smokey Internet cafe in Lagos, Nigeria writing these emails (maybe with his children or a corrupted cop on his side...). In any case, it is ironical how sometimes someone without education...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by John Romano on 03-30-2008

  • Re: Scam Alert: Beware of emails from Lampard Garry tel. +1 +447045742488

    I received the following emails from a vacation home owner: "I listed our vacation rental on craigslist.com. We received a reply from Steven Lampard, with the same e-mail like you showed from Garry Lampard, sdame phone number. Thank you for the warning. How is this a scam? What does this person...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by Alex on 03-29-2008

  • New kind of vacation rentals SCAM ...

    I found this interesting story about vacation rentals SCAM . This is not the typical SCAM schema and I think it will be interesting for you to read it. I have heard alot about rental SCAM, but this one is something new for me!
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by Milan Matchev on 12-29-2007

  • Fake vacation rental owner

    Please, be aware that there is a major scammer preying on vacationers seeking to rent vacation homes. He uses different aliases but seems to share the following telephone number on all his listings in several vacation rental portals: tel. 269216-9740. Most of the properties are listed in New York. If...
    Posted to Vacation Rental Scams (Forum) by John Romano on 07-18-2007
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