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Scammer arrested in Denpasar after pretending to be a legit agent and collecting funds without any knowledge of the owner

Scammer arrested in Denpasar after pretending to be a legit agent and collecting funds without any knowledge of the owner

The false real estate agent Rendy Tanos [ 29 ]  offering a house for rent on social media  what was  not his property and without any knowledge of the owner  

 was finally arrested on Monday 17/12/2018  in the area on Moyo Island.

 The victim Astrid Yunita Hapsari, contacted  the Rendy on November 21, 2018 before visiting the advertised house on socials media in the North Kuta area

After looking at the condition of the house, Astrid  was interested in contracting a house and stated that he would pay the rent in stages.

According to the Kapolsek, regarding payments, in addition to transferring money in the amount of Rp. 20 million through a BCA account belonging

 to the false agent  the day , Astrid respectively, on November 21, 2018 returned Rp 15  million to Astrid.

Finally only one day or November 22, Astrid  returned to transfer the money to the Rendy account by 5 million.

After making the last payment via transfer, according to the korbanakan agreement . Astrid  started to occupying the house of  on December 3, 2018 but the next day Astrid was very surprised when  another  agent came to the house and informed Astrid  and said that there was a buyer for the house.

 At the same moment the  neighbour also informed Astrid  that the owner of the house was not Rendy Tanos,

with big disbelief what the neighbours and agents told, she try to call Rendy who was not longer reachable and  removed all his social media account.

Her husband created the banner below and spead it on many Facebook pages to prevent Rendy ofmaking more victims.

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Sure enough, from the results of confirmation to the real owner, it turns out that the original owner never rented his house to another party.

Feeling cheated and harmed , Astrid finally decided to report it to the Mapolsek of the Kuta Police.

Furthermore, on the victim's report, the police then investigated and arrested Rendy in his room located in Denpasar.

Source : https://radarbali.jawapos.com

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