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    Spanish Vermieter*in (away but here’s my passport and photos?)


    Hey everyone,

    I’ve been contacted twice now by people who have moved to Spain, and that is their opening two emails about the apartment. They’ve even attached their passport and photos to get to know them more.

    Is this just due to German Bureaucracy, or is this a well-known scam?

    https://i.redd.it/49k58mp4fq7g1.png

    Posted by Klor204

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    17 Comments

    5. tezhax on

      100% scam. You NEVER need to pay before you signed anything or watched the apartment. Never ever. Also very crazy to rent something but pay ‘booking’?? Why would you do this. 1000000% scam. Try to report it to authorities.

    6. edgar-alien-poo on

      > They’ve even attached their passport and photos

      For the love of Cthulhu, how do people keep falling for this?

      They have attached a picture of a passport and some photos, and written “trust me bro this is definitely me”.

      You have zero evidence that the passport is genuine, and zero evidence that the passport, even if genuine, has any relation to the person who wrote “trust me bro this is definitely me”.

    10. its_aom on

      I can’t believe this scam isn’t better known, I know about it since more than 15 years, and not in Germany

    11. JoeAppleby on

      I saw the blue booking.com link and knew it was a scam before reading anything else in the image or post.

    13. Longjumping_Soft1890 on

      Great, had the same conversation when I looked for an appartment. He wanted to give me the flat after just one email.:D

      Do yourself a favor, delete this guy. This is a scam.

    15. Chemical-Injury-9214 on

      It’s a scam. Then they proceed to ask you for your passport photo ‘to verify you are also real’, and then they have more passport pictures to send to the next victim.

    16. OTee_D on

      SCAM, you will be asked to send money to Spain for the first rent and security deposit and then never hear anything form them again. Or vene better give the money in cash to a “trusted friend” wo will meet you to give you the keys.

      For the fun of it: Ask them to do a Zoom Call and show the ID card in the call as *”everyone knows there are a lot of ID pictures in circulation on the web.”* and see how fast thy vanish

    17. thewindinthewillows on

      !housing

      Read those two Wiki pages. This *exact* scam is described there, in great detail.

      What would “German Bureaucracy” have to do with anything?