Victim Location 32114
Total money lost $1,200
Type of a scam Rental
Craigslist posting for vacation rental at 2130 S Peninsula Dr Daytona Beach , FL 32118
All communication was by messenger, email and once by phone after I insisted that I needed to talk to a person. Their written English was good but the spoken English was rough.
The person I spoke to claimed to be the owner of the house in South Carolina and had property managers who look after the house which we could supposedly contact at any time by text. The number goes to Google voicemail account to leave a message as does the original posting.
We needed to move out of our current rental and get into a new one quickly and fell for this. We paid the deposit of $300 by PayPal and a cash bank transfer of $900. We still owed them $528 which we didn’t pay. So we are out $1200. they promised after my phone call to refund my money if I wasn’t happy. They keep cancelling the PayPal money transfer request for $1200. (we tried the $300 too) Buyer beware.