was inevitable: after a thousand thousand listings of apartments that we viewed, we caught the crook!
It 's a long running scam on Gumtree (famous site of ads, including those dedicated to housing)
The BBC also spoke: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content / Yesterday I articles/2008/10/01/flats_fraud_feature.shtml
faith and we were on Gumtree, to search for homes.
Open an announcement that brought home a cute, but beautiful in Zone 2, there was good price .. perfect, send an e-mail!
The guy said to us now, very happy and kind, but by the second / third email the tone has changed: he does not live in London, and as in the past had to come to town just for a person that never was made alive, requires evidence of our seriousness.
Of course, we say, we are serious and interested!
But it is not enough! And this is where he enters the bank of the famous Western Union, the culmination of the scam: it tells us that we need to deposit money and show him the receipt, so that he can understand if we have money or not.
and of course the bank account (which we have just opened at Barclays) is not safe from them can not figure out if we have the money to pay O__O
Obviously we have not waterfalls, because many people had warned us of the danger, so there we lost a pound.
But it was still sad, as well as a wicked!
So, to all those looking for home in London: be careful with your eyes open!
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