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.
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