Room for Rent and other rental scams
by Michelle Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:33 am
From: C. Marie-Claude < [email protected] >

Hello,
Thank you for your reply. I would have you report that your situation has been understood. As stated in the previous message, I confirm that the rent is: 395 € / month (charges included) (Water, electricity gas, garbage collection.).
Remember that our home is available for a long time since we have just settled permanently at La Roche-sur-Yon.
The rental is between individuals, there is no commission agency, fees, lease writing fees.
The requested guarantee is one (1) month for the rent and one (1) month for the deposit as the French Law demands.

Regarding the appointment, I am available to take a reservation for this Saturday, July 07 at 17H or Sunday, July 8 at 17H or another date of your convenience to make you visit our apartment and in particular signed the contract of lease since we now live on Yon.
Understand that we have already made the move several times for people who found the apartment awesome but had not yet met the amount requested or their records were not complete.
So we do not want to start these kinds of shuttles again. So that the appointment is effective with you, a final formality remains to fill the post to pre-establish the Mandate and ensure that you are really interested and you can afford to rent our apartment.
Here is the list of the parts to provide during the delivery of the keys of our accommodation :
- A copy of both sides of your valid ID.
- A receipt of the last rent or a proof of address (For example an EDF invoice etc ..)
- Last salary statement.
- The receipt of the Secure Mandate of 790 € euros as stipulated by the lease contract.

Ps: Please find attached a copy of the lease agreement and the rental conditions of the apartment.

Thank you to answer me quickly if the conditions stipulated in the lease agreement are suitable for you and your availability for our appointment, so that we can communicate to you later the coordinates of my husband to pre-establish the receipt of the Secure mandate to the postal bank .

You can reach my husband on 07 56 80 59 51 (being often taken professionally, you can leave him a message or an SMS and he will contact you as soon as possible).
Thank you for your understanding cordially Mrs Claude-Marie CORVELLEC.


From: C. Marie-Claude < [email protected] >

I have just read the email, I also understand your concerns but I want to tell you that you have very poorly understood the contents stipulated not the lease, We do not ask you to send us money without having seen our apartment nor sign the lease contract.
This is just a deposit that I ask you to pre-establish and that because we had had to make previous displacements which ended in disappointments and it is in order to avoid that this happens again once I I made my arrangements so understand that our conditions remain the same at this level.
Regarding the secure western union mandate, the guarantee I can give you is that once you have to get the deposit you put your phone number for the secure so that the post calls you before any payment to the payee, also the will give you the Mandate on which figuras a secret code (Identification Number MTCN) that you must necessarily communicated to us in order to allow me to enter the Postal Money Order under your agreement, but without this secret code and confirmation agreement on the phone, we will not be able to touch the funds of your Mandate Western Union because it is very secure. C '

And if you put yourself in our places, having already made the trip many times; you will understand our positions very well.
So our appointment will take place according to your availability this after confirmation of the necessary parts to provide as stipulated in the lease contract to allow us to authenticate the rental record and the contract on your behalf for the completion of formalities when your visit so that we can hand you at the same time the keys of our accommodation as planned.
Thank you for your understanding cordially Mrs Marie-Claude CORVELLEC.


This person asks for a deposit payment via Western Union, MoneyGram or bank transfer with a promise that you can have the keys to a property that does not belong to him.

Sounds safe. It's not!

At other times, he will ask for proof that you are able to pay the deposit and rent due to a string of time wasters.
This proof is in the form of a Western Union or MoneyGram payment to a lawyer,a friend or family member.

In either case, if payment is made and you give this person the details, they will collect the money.
You will not hear from them again.

All the details such as names, addresses, pictures etc. that the scammer uses in order to back up his story, are stolen from elsewhere.

If you are reading this because you are looking for property to rent, and you are in contact with this thief you are probably searching Craigslist, Gumtree or similar listing sites. If you receive any requests from 'Landlords' asking for some kind of payment before viewing, then it will also be a scam. Please forward the mail to me at the address in my signature line and I will investigate and list them if necessary.
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