Tenants warned of scams
Scams include a desirable property listed at very low rent – but only available to be viewed once a large deposit was received, a property listed for rent without the owners’ knowledge and complicated systems where legitimate New Zealand passports and drivers’ licenses were used to verify the identities of foreign conmen soliciting fake bonds.
One Whangarei woman had been targeted twice over the past two years. Fifteen months ago, she placed a wanted ad on a rental website. The ad was responded to by someone who called himself “Duncan” and used a passport and driver’s licence to verify his identity.
She completed application forms for his property and supplied identification but became suspicious and backed out when he wanted more than $1000 in rent and bond before she had seen the house.
She thought that was the end of it but last week, she received a Facebook message from a woman in Auckland who had been contacted by someone using her passport and driver’s licence in the same way “Duncan” had more than a year ago.
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