Italian Fake Real Estate Agent Scams Victims in Ibiza
Italian Fake Real Estate Agent – Arrested for defrauding 58,000 euros through fake housing ads
The Policía Nacional on Ibiza has arrested a 30-year-old Italian man for committing five real estate scams in the area. The arrestee, posing as a real estate agent with an office in the town of Ibiza, published advertisements for the sale of homes on online real estate portals with attractive prices, lower than others of similar homes but with amounts that did not raise suspicions of being illegal.
The accused usually had access to the properties, being a tenant of them, and took advantage of this situation to show them freely, offering guarantees of availability to potential buyers. He arranged several visits on the same days to put pressure on the interested parties, forcing them to make quick decisions to buy, at which time he would ask for a deposit to reserve the property and formalize a deposit contract, normally amounting to 5,000 euros.
The fraud continued as he sent documents of the house to the buyers and a deposit contract supposedly signed by the owner, requesting new payments for these procedures but making different excuses to never reach the signing of the sale. He even sent forged death certificates of the supposed seller to further prolong the scam.
The investigation has been able to determine the alleged responsibility of the detainee in at least five cases reported at the Ibiza police station since last September. The total sum of the amounts defrauded is 58,000 euros. The search for new victims continues, and the police do not rule out further arrests.
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Italian Fake Real Estate Agent
In summary, the fake real estate agent used a modus operandi consisting of posing as a legitimate agent, publishing ads with attractive prices, arranging several visits on the same days to put pressure on potential buyers, and prolonging the scam through forged documents and excuses.
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