Renter-Protection Call After ‘Appalling’ Alleged Scam

Published on November 18, 2023

An advocate has called for a public register to protect desperate renters after more than a dozen prospective tenants were allegedly scammed out of more than $60,000 (US$39,000). The alleged fraud involved numerous properties across Sydney advertised on social media platforms since February 2022. Prospective renters were enticed into paying bonds for the properties in Bondi, Parramatta, Liverpool, Wentworthville and Auburn only for contact to later end. Police this week pounced on the alleged fraudulent landlord, a registered property and strata manager, outside his employer’s office in Merrylands. The Rhodes man, 35, faced a Sydney court on Nov. 17 on 34 charges including 21 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception....

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