Fake ad, Le Bon Coin rental scam.

Answer 2 / 22

chacha033

Oh yes, fortunately I didn't fall for it lol

And that the guy has my first/last name isn't too serious, I think? Anyway, it's written when I send emails so in any case...

Fortunately, I didn't give anything else, you really have to be very careful with all these nice scams that are circulating on the net.

Thank you!

Answer 3 / 22

Anonymous user

Hello,
Right now on Le Bon Coin, I am looking for a rental in Normandy, and I found some great options for an attractive price, including one where I provided my contact details as well as those of my partner, his professional situation, and the number of people we are. I am a bit worried that they might use this information because they are offering me a cash mandate urgently, and coming to this forum made me feel uneasy, as I noticed they are using the same text here.

From: oceane-valemberg@hotmail.fr
To: pupuce.08@live.fr
Subject: RE: VISIT ARRANGEMENTS
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:33:12 +0200

Good evening

First of all, I would like to thank you for your keen interest in our accommodation, which will undoubtedly suit you once you visit it, as it is located close to all amenities (hospitals, train station, supermarkets, grocery stores, town hall, kindergartens, primary schools, colleges, high schools) and you would be in a good, quiet setting. After a careful reading of your message, I would like to inform you that I am now available for you, meaning that you could be my new tenant. However, I would like to tell you that we are available to show you the house on Thursday, September 29, at 6 PM in front of the town hall in Dieppe. As previously explained, I do not want to leave it unoccupied, which is why it has been put up for rent. The duration of the lease can be what suits you, and it can even exceed 5 years, as the accommodation being conventioned would allow you to benefit from APL. Please believe us in all integrity, as our goal is to carry out this transaction correctly and legally.

For the appointment to be effective on Thursday with you, one last formal requirement remains to be completed to ensure that you are genuinely interested in renting our house. By the latest on Wednesday morning, your rental application must be complete, and regarding the security deposit, instead of being by check or other means for security reasons and also to reassure us of the availability of funds, we would like it to be via urgent cash mandate, that is to say, you will go make the deposit for the month’s rent and the deposit, which amounts to €1000 per urgent cash mandate at the post office using our details that we will provide you later.

Clarification: To prepare the urgent cash mandate, you simply need to go to the post office with the amount of €1000 in cash. You will request the form for an URGENT CASH MANDATE that you will fill out with my details as well as yours. After this operation at the post office, they will give you a receipt containing our details and the collection information that you must keep carefully with you. So you will have a receipt which you will confirm to us by scanning it while hiding the secret information (collection codes). It is only after signing the lease contract making you the new tenant of our house that you will hand me the original receipt containing the secret information, which will serve as payment.

Let me explain: once you have visited the house and given your consent for the lease once it suits you, we will proceed to the signing of the documents of the lease contract that I will submit to you, and only at that point will we exchange the receipt of the urgent cash mandate for the keys to the house and everything related to the lease. Please note that the “exchange of receipt for keys to the house” will only take place if and only if you are satisfied with the visit to the premises. If for some reason you were not satisfied (which I seriously doubt considering the condition of the property), you will be able to oppose the mandate thanks to its receipt.
NB: The urgent cash mandate does not mean that you send me money but just a deposit on delivery to confirm your genuine capacity as a potential tenant. By going to deposit the money at the post office by “URGENT CASH MANDATE” (no commitment) on your part. I am attaching the brochures from the postal bank detailing the functioning of the URGENT CASH MANDATE. This is in a way a guarantee on my part and a reservation for yours.

Please confirm your agreement so that I can send you the details to obtain the urgent cash mandate as soon as possible.

Thank you for responding if you are truly interested so that we can arrange for the visit and conclusion of the lease agreement.
You can contact my husband at: 0044 70 11 17 36 88

Best regards, and hoping to finalize very soon

Mrs. BOUBOU

WHAT SHOULD I DO?????

Answer 4 / 22

marius

I don't know if they are the same or if they have found disciples, but it seems he has moved to Corsica.
For now, it's not obvious that it's a scam, but the fact that the terms of the email I received are almost identical to the one received by Chacha can only lead to such a conclusion.
So, caution, caution, caution...

Good evening
I just read your message and I inform you that my 25 m² studio on the 3rd floor
with elevator
is still available and already free to be occupied by a new
tenant.
Our studio is located on the street ... (masked)
Indeed, we want to rent our studio due to our financial difficulties
as my husband has just been laid off and I am the only one managing.
For the visit, there is no problem as my husband and I will come to show it to you even though we currently live in Ajaccio (CORSICA) in the 20th.
The rent is €350 all charges included (water, electricity, gas) but you will have to pay one month's deposit (€350) for the lease signing.
Please send me the following information by email:
NAME: .............................FIRST NAME.......................MONTHLY INCOME
Monthly....................
LEASE DURATION:...................Number of inhabitants.............................
Phone(s).....................................
- You also need to bring these
documents at the time of the visit and contract signing:
-copies of both sides of the identity card or driving license
-last pay slips
-last 3 rent receipts
-The payment of one month's rent (€350) and one month's deposit (€350).
Best regards.

Answer 5 / 22

martinette

we had the same experience with a car, but working at the post office we knew that an urgent cash order could be cashed even without the order since it is enough to provide the order details so yes be very careful because there are more and more scams like this

Answer 6 / 22

boudha

Exactly the same scam, but today it’s an oil one in Niger... be careful. The house for rent was the one across from my place, so I immediately sniffed out the scam.

Answer 7 / 22

poutou

Hello; same scam for three weeks in Caudebec-les-Elbeuf in Seine-Maritime.
I responded to an ad of the same kind three weeks ago because I'm looking for a house in this city, and I understood the scam when it came to the cash mandate.
As a result, I regularly check Le Bon Coin, and today an ad caught my attention; it matched my expectations but............ it appeared under the same name as mine! I therefore sent an email expressing my interest and, oh! surprise, one hour later it had disappeared.
The ad was online for barely 3 hours, too short to wrap up a transaction.
I now hope they will stop, knowing that someone searching in this city has spotted them.
I remain vigilant.

Answer 8 / 22

glix

Good catch, we almost got duped too, and a little surprise when I typed the address into Google, guess what I found :)

https://fr.foncia.com/location/merignac-33700/maison

So there you go, nothing to do with either the photos or the price, so it looks like a big scam. I don’t know if we can report it to the police with his phone number or not, anyway, see you later :p

Answer 9 / 22

jerrysanders

It's funny because the vocabulary and the standard phrases are the same as those used in the emails received by me and other people from the forum.
Sometimes it's Mr. Richard or Mr. Bourget, and of course this person won't be around for ten years...

Answer 10 / 22

marmenard

Hello
Scam in large development
it's actually simple: if you can't show what you're renting
it's easy to charge a local agency for tours and rentals
Any other procedure is a scam
Upon an urgent Cash Mandate request, you will never get a real address
as is the case here
Last Name: Richard
First Name: Jeanine
City: MERIGNAC

street and number missing. The post office issues the mandate upon seeing the ID without noting to whom
it’s probably a stolen or lost ID.

Answer 11 / 22

kaminigirl

Hello, I was a victim of the same person except that I live in the north and supposedly it's the owner's uncle who was supposed to show me the house and I was to send 500 euros by money order. The response email I received was the same as yours!
Fortunately, I also sensed the scam and I didn't even leave my contact details; I was afraid of identity theft.
It's really unacceptable; they give hope to people who believe they have found the rare gem...

Answer 12 / 22

Laura

Hello, I also have the same issue as you, a couple wanting to rent their house for €500 in Gironde (while originally rentals in this area are around €1,000), asking me for the same system with the infamous urgent cash mandate with a number coming from England. I'm copying you the email from today that raised my suspicions since we wanted an appointment for the end of the month and she asked us for our availability dates and of course the date is not correct on the calendar:

Hello,
Following your response, my husband and I have decided to come down to show you our house.
The visit is therefore scheduled for SATURDAY, September 16, 2011, at 6 PM in CAMBLANES-ET-MEYNAC 33360.
(the house number will be given to you the day before the appointment for you to wait for us). Please be punctual.
As you know, during the visit and the signing of the contract, you will come with all the documents at your disposal.
As for the visits, last Monday we had an appointment with a lady who was strongly interested, but she was not on site (meaning she was not at the appointment), which resulted in disappointment.

For the appointment to be effective on SATURDAY with you, one last formality remains to be completed to ensure that you are really interested in renting our house:
You prepare your rental file in full, and regarding the security deposit instead of it being by check or other for security reasons and also to reassure us of the availability of funds, we would like it to be in urgent cash mandate receipt, meaning you will go make the deposit of one month’s rent and one month’s deposit which makes €1,000 by urgent cash mandate at the post office using our details that we will provide you later.

After this operation at the post office, the post office will issue you a receipt that contains our details and the collection information that you should keep confidential with you. So you will have a receipt that you will confirm to us by scanning while hiding the secret information (collection codes).
On SATURDAY from 6 PM, after visiting the house, my husband will prepare a rental agreement according to your lease duration and we will hand you the keys to the house, then you will give us the urgent cash mandate receipt containing the collection information so that we can cash the security deposit if our house suits you. Otherwise, if the house is not to your taste, which would surprise us a lot, you can still withdraw your money with the receipt that contains the collection information. This is in a way a guarantee from my side and a reservation for yours.

P.S. The urgent cash mandate does not mean that you send us money.
NO!!!
It's just a deposit at the Post Office to guarantee your desire to rent our house and that you also have the means to rent this house. Understand that you are not the only interested parties, in addition to the fact that we have previously encountered false appointments, so we no longer want to take unnecessary appointments (wasting our time for nothing).
This will therefore reassure us of your good faith so that we can organize and consider our offer as already rented to other interested parties.

So thank you for responding so we can give you the details for the urgent cash mandate deposit.

Thank you for your understanding.

You can directly contact my husband at 0044,70,35,91,58,05 if you need more info.

>> Be careful of scams and too enticing ads <<

Answer 13 / 22

Anonymous user

hello to you, latest scam: Touareg V6 TDI 2010 24000kms 29999€. A woman named Avella Frederica who allegedly divorced a Frenchman and is residing in Ireland. Email: frederica.a@live.com Beware!... she is posing as a woman

Answer 14 / 22

nat

I did the same thing as you, we went there and there are indeed people living there. It's definitely a scam.
We canceled the appointment and following the cancellation they offered us a meeting with their notary.
What wouldn't people do to scam others?

nat

Moreover, the actual house does not match the photos.

Answer 15 / 22

frederic91600 Posted messages 620 Registration date Status Member Last intervention 76

'Hey,
another scam on "le bon coin".......it's not the first time, and it won't be the last....

--
TV is so stupid, even the birds don't land on the antennas anymore.

Answer 16 / 22

stefanie5

Incredible!!!!! I am currently looking for the address mentioned in the email I just received today and it's indeed the same scam always on "le bon coin", I wrote them an email and I'm waiting for a response, we are in 2010 and this person is still active on this same site always with very attractive rental prices so I think today I am going to file a complaint!!! I don't know how to report this message on "le bon coin", fed up with the scammers!!!

Answer 17 / 22

catcat

Thank you for this info, my sister almost fell for it, I was able to prove the scam thanks to you!!
She's looking at a house in Besançon with a cellar, pool, fully furnished and heating included for 628 € ??!! But the nonsense is the same, the south, people who won't travel...

Thanks again

Answer 18 / 22

bene

I encountered the same case today; people left MARSEILLE and ALLAUCH to work in LONDON. The houses are cheap, and they also request a cash mandate. I sensed the scam, so I didn't follow up. Their name is METOT, their email address is famille_metot@hotmail.fr, and they have a fake London phone number.

Answer 19 / 22

lou62

same ad in Nord-Pas de Calais exactly the same things pffff it's shameful!

moan

Same in 28!
Thank you for responding to my ad, my house is still available located at
" NOGENT LE PHAYE - 28630 "
Could you tell me a little more about yourself?
Your profession? Your annual salary?
Do you live alone or with someone?
Features:
THE CALM AND PEACE IN A DESIRABLE TOWN RECENT PAVILION GARDEN - GARAGE Entrance, kitchen, living room, 4 bedrooms, bathroom, 2 toilets.
Rent: €600 including charges such as (water, electricity, waste collection, and heating)
I am renting it to ensure its occupancy during my long absence as I have just purchased another house in Paris where I am currently working on a permanent contract.
I am the owner and if you are genuinely interested, here are my conditions
- When visiting and signing the contract, you should provide the following:
...... copies of your ID card or driver's license (front and back)
...... A receipt of the last rent (if you are leaving a rental)
...... Payment of one month’s rent and one month’s deposit (€1200).
The visit of the place as well as the signing of the lease and the handing over of the keys will pose NO problem for me. Given the distance that separates us for visiting this house, I need to be sure that you are really my potential tenant.
To set a visit date, I need the following information.

NAME:
FIRST NAME:
Number of occupants:
Phone(s):
I would appreciate it if you could leave me the above information to arrange an appointment,
I will contact you to agree on the appointment.
P.S. for the lease, on the day of our meeting, I will be accompanied by my wife, so please bring a friend or relative as a witness to the transaction.
I will be waiting for your response to make a decision about the visit.
Best regards

camille

Same ad in Nogent-le-Phaye, same speech!!!!!!

prisc

Similar to TILLE in the Oise.

Mélanie

Hello, I myself came across one of these ads for a 7-room house in Suresnes in the Paris region. Exterior and interior photos were provided to me. It seemed strange given that it was priced at 500 euros including charges per month. We still replied to see the response.
Here’s the response:
Hello

Thank you for responding to the ad regarding the rental of our house. We just saw your email and confirm its availability.

Available since Saturday and at this price because my husband got a new job abroad. So our house is currently free to be occupied.

The rental price is indeed 500 € including tax/month (all charges included). So if you are really interested, let us know so that we can come back down for a possible visit.

In reality, we are renting it, not for money but just to avoid leaving it empty and unmaintained.

We could establish a long-term lease with you.

There will be no problem in drafting the rental contract.

Regarding the deposit to be paid, we will try to define it together with you according to your availability.

Our allocation condition:

One month deposit

One month rent

That you will pay on the day of the visit as a security deposit, in order to prove your request so that we can hold an interview with you.

Here is the description of the house attached with the photos as attachments

House 7 rooms - SURESNES - 92150

SURESNES Close to PUTEAUX At the end of a closed cul-de-sac guaranteeing calm and tranquility, large family house with a beautiful landscaped garden of 150 m2 without vis-à-vis. On a living area of approximately 220 m2, built on 3 levels, this charming house offers an entrance, a pleasant living room with fireplace, a dining room, and an open kitchen, all opening onto the terrace and the garden. On the first floor, a master suite of 30m2 with dressing room and bathroom, 2 bedrooms, another bathroom, and a shower room. In the attic, two more bedrooms, one with a water point. Laundry room, plenty of storage. WARM and PLEASANT HOUSE to LIVE IN.

Features

Number of rooms 7
Number of floors 3
Number of bedrooms 5
Type of kitchen American
Kitchen condition Furnished and equipped
Heating type Gas
Number of bathrooms 2
Number of shower rooms 1
Number of WCs 3
Basement type None
Attached yes
Type of attachment 2 sides
Sewage system All to the sewer

Proximity

City center 10 min
Shops 5 min
School 5 min
Transport 10 min
Line T2 - SNCF
Surfaces

Living area 220.00 m2
Total land area 281.00 m2

Thank you for replying with your availability so we can check our calendar to arrange a possible appointment for the visit

Best regards

So we subsequently responded that we agree to make an appointment for a visit on the condition of having a reading of their property deed at the visit. Strangely, there has been no response since our new email.

Having a baby, we hoped this would not be a scam and we are ultimately disappointed that people can do this.

Be careful not to get caught up in this as well.

Good evening to you.

mimosa

I've had the same scam of the all-inclusive house rental in Brittany as of July 27, 2011. Those bastards, I didn't think it existed. It's exactly the same phrases and the same words, so be careful because it's a real shame to be in a world of crooks.

Answer 20 / 22

chacha033

Glad to have helped you :)

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