Canadian resident Burt did not expect that the listing information when selling a house would become a tool for bad people to cheat money! Bryan and his wife Kim Burt are resident of Prince Edward Island, Katung, who live in Charlottetown, the province's capital.

Canadian resident Burt did not expect that the listing information when selling a house would become a tool for bad people to cheat money!

Bryan and his wife Kim Burt are resident of Prince Edward Island, Katung, who live in Charlottetown, the capital of the province.

Last month, the couple put a house in Enman Crescent on the market for sale. Shortly after Listing was online, their agent received an inquiry call, but strangely, most of the people who called wanted to rent a house instead of buying a house.

At first they thought the other party had called the wrong phone number, but an acquaintance told them that things were not that simple!

The driver who regularly transports fuel to the Porter couple's residence is also a local resident. The driver's daughter is planning to rent a house recently and saw a very cheap rental advertisement on the craigslist website. A three-bedroom detached house is for rent, with a monthly rent of $1,200 and a deposit of $1,000. The price of

is much lower than the average rent of houses in the same conditions in this community. The driver's daughter felt that the rental advertisement was "too good to be true", so she asked her father to help her make an idea.

father looked at the address and looked at the photo. It was the Porter's residence that he had just sent fuel a few days ago!

The driver called Porter to inquire. Only then did Porter realize that his house was put online for rent by a stranger. The key information such as house types, floor plans, photos and other items on rental advertisements are copied from their selling listings. But the Porter couple has never heard of the owner of the advertisement who claims to be Sabrina and John!

Ports called the craigslist website and confirmed that they were the homeowner. The website’s rental advertisement was removed.

But things were not over. In the next few days, several people still called to rent a house, all of which were advertisements I saw from craigslist a few days ago. By early January, a woman even arrived at the door of this detached house with big bags and small bags, planning to move in!

When she found out that the house was locked and there was a sign "This house is for sale", she was very shocked. She called according to the phone number of the real estate agent in the advertisement, and the Porters realized that the scammer had successfully cheated $2,200. After reading the craigslist advertisement, the woman who planned to rent a house directly sent a month's rent and deposit to Sabrina and John, who claimed to be the owner.

At present, the local police have launched an investigation into the case. It is still hard to say whether the victim's 2,200 yuan can be recovered. Sgt. Dean Field, a Charlottetown Police officer, said the scam was not new and similar cases have occurred before.

In 2019, Charlottetown media reported two similar cases, both of which were scammers stealing real homes and homeowners’ information from the Internet, but posted advertisements for renting houses under their own name. If you cast a wide net, you will always encounter a few unsuspecting pure tenants.

One of the victims, Kayla Westhaver-Covin, was a college student who was internship in PEI during summer from other provinces. He encountered such a bad thing as soon as he entered society and was deeply hit. She said that when she found out that she had been cheated of more than 1,000 yuan by a "netizen" who was deeply trusted, the only thing she could do was cry loudly.

This time, the Porter couple, whose information was stolen due to the sale of the house, feel very sorry for the experience of the female tenant. He specifically reminded tenants through CBC media not to be too rude when renting a house. If you have never met the homeowner or the agent himself, if the other party cannot take you to the house to see the house, then he is likely to be a liar.

At the same time, the Porter couple advised homeowners to search online from time to time to see if any bad people use your information to commit fraud.

The homeowner’s information was stolen by the bad guy. In addition to cheating rent in the name of fake landlords, there is also a more hateful thing, which is to sublet money as the second landlord in a half-true and half-false way.

This kind of bad guy is more courageous. They are not satisfied with cheating cash and running away. Instead, they invest for a long time. They first sign a lease contract with the real landlord, and then divide the house into multiple small rooms. They lied to the outside world that they were the landlords and rented the small rooms to low-income people or college students to earn a lot of rent. When such "group rental housing" that violates fire safety regulations is fined by the government, the innocent homeowner himself is the one who suffers the real losses.

Arif Adan Syed in Toronto, Ontario is such a secondary landlord. He rented 12 luxury houses in Toronto, and converted them into "group rental houses". He charged tenants more than 30,000 Canadian dollars in rent every month, but he also found various excuses not to pay the real landlord.

In addition, Sayed hardly screens tenants. Some of the tenants grow marijuana in the house, some follow the example and become three landlords, and some people have close contact with criminal gangs. A fight in the rental house almost caused a life. Annoying trivial matters such as littering and damaging furniture occur frequently.

When illegal sublease is reported, the consequences of government fines and other consequences must be borne by the real landlord. In addition, there are huge costs such as demolishing partition walls and repairing damaged interior decoration. Moreover, the rent received by the second landlord from the tenant was not handed over to the real landlord.

A victim of Chinese-American house Ms. Zhang said that the loss of rent, utility bills and decoration costs, their family lost nearly 200,000 Canadian dollars due to the fake landlord.

Houses are the biggest asset in life. People with houses are like holding a piece of fat meat in their hands. They may be targeted by bad people at some point. Sometimes the homeowner becomes a victim without realizing it or is involved in an inexplicable scam. It is recommended that homeowners search the Internet from time to time to search for their address, and perhaps they can expose a bad person's conspiracy.