Evening Standard – Police hunt ‘AirBnB’ tenant who posed as landlord to fleece victim of £1,600

January 27, 2017
A man is being sought by police in connection with an Airbnb rental scam in London. Detectives say the victim was conned out of £1,600 after responding to a listing on the Gumtree website for a property to let in Dulwich. The man was shown around the property in Clive Road on September 18 last year by someone claiming to be the flat’s landlord. The prospective tenant then transferred an advance rental payment of £1,600 to an account, the details for which were provided by the fraudster…
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