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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Fraud Squad investigates Facebook housing scam in Tunapuna

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Shane Superville
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Shane Su­perville

Fraud Squad of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a Face­book scam where fraud­sters swin­dled a Tu­na­puna cou­ple out of cash af­ter they paid for two hous­es ad­ver­tised on­line.

On 3 Feb­ru­ary, the woman re­spond­ed to a Face­book ad­ver­tise­ment for two Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) hous­es in Phase 4, Mal­abar. She con­tact­ed the list­ed num­ber and de­posit­ed $18,000 at Re­pub­lic Bank's Tu­na­puna branch for one house. Her hus­band de­posit­ed an­oth­er $18,000 in­to a dif­fer­ent ac­count for the sec­ond house.

How­ev­er, they nev­er re­ceived ac­cess to the prop­er­ties. When the woman com­plained to the sell­er about the lack of re­sponse, the per­son as­sured her of a re­fund, which she has yet to re­ceive.

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