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MILLION DOLLAR GUARDAMAR FRAUD
Dave Bull / 2009-10-22 12:22:09
A webpage which showed photos of urbanisations in the Vega Baja and the beaches of Alicante is what police believed to be a scam and has been shutdown following an investigation into an estimated 500 rentals for properties where people had paid for a holiday but the property did not exist.
Two Dutch people have been arrested in connection with scam rentals in Guardamar del Segura. One of the fraudsters was arrested last week and has been named as Peter Maas a 41 year old from Colina Real Urbanisation who will now be extradited to Holland. The second arrest was of a 47 year old man who had already left Spain; he was detained in Arnhem in Holland.
The pair ran a webpage offering people from Holland the Belgium holiday homes which either turned out to be already occupied or did not exist. Finding themselves stuck, they then had no option but to stay in a hotel, or try and rent somewhere else for their stay before they could present a complaint when they got back home.
The investigation followed over 500 complaints received by police in Groningen, a town in the north of Holland, from people who had lost money. It began in July and police believe that they scam could have earned the two men over a million Euros in that time with most of the victims coming from either Holland or Belgium. If anyone else has been caught up in the con on the webpage villaspanjehuren.nl, they should get in touch with police.
Tags: Fraud, Guardamar
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