Word of Warning
Just a suggestion – try to avoid paying individuals (especially in cash) before you have seen the apartment you are going to rent …
A bogus estate agent who sweet-talked would-be tenants out of thousands of pounds each has been jailed for eight months.
Building site labourer Nuruazzaman Miah described the luxury apartments in such glowing terms that his wealthy victims did not even ask to see their future homes before happily parting with their hard-earned cash. In exchange they got sets of fake keys and tenancy agreements not worth the paper they were printed on. It was only when they turned up at where they hoped to live that they found the keys did not work and the places already occupied, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard.
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