IE Rentals - Grand Canal Dock

kieran12

Hi guys, 
Just putting this up to try help make people more aware.
I recently responded to an ad placed on Daft for an apartment in The Dickens, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4.
Once in contact with this "representative" of IE Rentals he suggested I pay a deposit through Airbnb and then we could inspect the apartment and sign the lease.
However when I pushed him on some support to his legitamacy he had no appropiate response, instead telling me if I didn't want to rent then someone else would. The company registration, VAT number and PRSA license number were all made up.

When I inspected further the link provided to go the payment screen was a redirect link to a page that looked like it was Airbnb that was very convincing.
I did not provide payment but I have given him/her my girlfriend and my PPS numbers, names, DOB.

Goes without saying you should never provide payment before meeting the landlord / agent at the property and inspecting the property.
Thankfully I have accommodation but I would worry that this scam has caught people out that are more desperate for a place to live than me.
Is there anything I should do to help protect myself and my girlfriend in relation to the PPS number and DOB given to this person?

dudara

Moved to Accommodation & Property

dudara

Baby01032012

Did you report the ad to Daft and the guards?

kieran12

I told Daft and Airbnb. I will head in to a station on the way home and just inform them but I don't see them actively pursuing, more to cover myself.

Heisenberg.

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Bob24

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Pretty bad behaviour and probably in breach of their lease :-/ (I assume they are not informing their landlords)

I am almost in that situation (living in one fo the highest demand developments in the city and rent hasn't increased for 6 years as the relationship with my landlord has been excellent), and I will be moving out soon as I recently purchased a property. Wouldn't have came to my mind to screw the landlord who's been good to me and mess-up the local rental market even more by subletting the property on Airbnb in spite of not being allowed to do so.

dubrov

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No way. It has all the hallmarks of a scam (payment before meeting, fake payment site etc.)

kieran12

As far as I'm concerned it was a scam, the link I was sent to make payment was not a legitimate Airbnb page. It was his own page that would have cleaned me out. When I challenged him on his legitimacy he kept repeating he "was a verified user of Airbnb". The listing never appeared on Airbnb when I searched for it through their site.

ted1

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Nope just a pure scam. They’ll be no apartment and they’ll keep the money