Euro Weekly News | Rental Scam nets €420,000 | Costa Blanca North | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "SOPHISTICATED yet simple scam where deposits were taken from expectant tourists, for non-existent holiday homes that were advertised on the internet, has netted the fraudsters some €420,000. Of the two hundred complainants about one hundred and fifty are British, and the fake properties were all advertised (with photos of real houses) as situated in the Denia-Javea and Teulada-Moraira areas, all being popular with the British holiday maker.
The rip-offs took place in the summer of 2009 when unsuspecting holidaymakers started to arrive and discover that their holiday rental home didn’t actually exist, along with the disappearance of the supposed rental company. Their phone wasn’t answered, their address unoccupied.
The deposits taken – and lost- were between €1,800 to €8000 and to date not one penny has been recovered.
Guardia Civil investigators did manage to make two arrests in Javea and a preliminary trial has now taken place in Denia. However the main culprits are still at large .Meanwhile the British police operation, co-ordinated in Woodstock, remains open but with little hope of any early breakthrough."
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