Do scams and bank fraud attempts occur when renting out?
We have recently been subject to a Fraud or Scam from this person: Name: Reed Huish Email Address: reed42k@yahoo.co.uk Home Telephone: 971507843893 (not genuine) Home Address: 64, Al-Khaleej Rd,Deira, Dubai, U.A.E. Upon receiving a booking confirmation from this person for a 40 night winter booking worth 1500 euro, we asked for a 300 euro booking deposit as we were not comfortable with the enquiry. He was asked to arrange a bank transfer to our Spanish Bank but instead sent a cheque for over 8000 euro (he said by mistake) from an Irish bank account to our Spanish bank. It showed immediately as a credit in our account. After informing the person that we suspected it was a fraud and that we were cancelling his booking, we stopped communicating with the person despite repeated requests. However, we did not inform the bank about our suspicions and 2 weeks later, the cheque bounced. However, the bank charge us nearly 150 euro for the bounced cheque!! We went to our bank and explained the fr
