A Couple From Vercelli Rented a Vacation Home in Finale Ligure, but It Was a Scam: a Man Was Reported.

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Anyone booking accommodation via platforms like Booking or Airbnb may at the very least expect that the chosen property actually exists. The companies are making enough profit to be able to do more about ghost addresses, writes our political reporter Laurens Kok.

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VERCELLI – They were scammed by the seller of a vacation home, and they discovered it after paying the deposit. A couple living in Vercelli reported to the Carabinieri that they had fallen victim to an alleged real estate scam, orchestrated around the rental of a vacation apartment in Finale Ligure, in the province of Savona. From the (fake) listing to the deposit payment: After an initial approach based on an online listing, the negotiations we…