Fraudsters lure with false rental apartments: deposits in danger!

Fraudsters lure with false rental apartments: deposits in danger!

In Graz, the police are confronted with a new fraud stitch, in which several people were cheated by high deposits. These fraudsters rent holiday apartments and then offer them as regular rental apartments on real estate portals. The victims who fall into the trap sign falsified rental contracts during the sightseeing dates and transfer several thousand euros as a deposit, so reported Today.at .

The fraudsters vary as a broker and attract interests under the pretext to rent an apartment. After the deposit has been transferred, however, they disappear without a trace and are no longer available to their victims, which leads to considerable financial damage. So far, three cases have been known to the police, which is possible that the same perpetrators are active again, as police spokesman Fritz Grundnig said. The authorities warn that there were already similar incidents this year, in which the perpetrators could get away, such as