Spams are nothing special on the Internet. They inundated e-mail boxes, social networks, and so on. It spreads like a black death a few hundred years ago. However, you should beware of one special type of spams that has begun to appear in Facebook groups with accommodation for rent.
It is easy. Various offers and demands for a rent or roommate are commented by real people or even more robots with fake profiles. The comment is always enriched with some link that attracts to click on suspicious website. In the best case, you can only waste your time and your computer can be hacked. In the worst one, you can be robbed and lost your money.
Another problem is that spams also destroy this groups on Facebook and make difficult to find a relevant flat to let or roomshare. Also, administrations have more to do and sites that are carefully managed by their administrators are mostly all right. The others are filled with unwanted content.
A fraudulent comment is usually very short, such as „try + link“, „check this out + link“, „search for here + link“, etc. Some scammers are more sophisticated and use longer texts. They do not hesitate to „like“ their comment to make it more trusted at the first sight. Please do not click on these links and avoid them!
Examples of likely fraudulent sites:
- Roomster.com
- Roommates.com
- Listorent.com
- Roomsrental.net
- Rentalservices.ascast.net
- Cheap-rooms14.blogpost.com
- Cheap-rooms15.blogspot.com
- Cheap-rooms16.blogspot.com
- Room-parking4.blogspot.pe
- Room-roommate02.blogspot.pe
- Amazing-rental-services.blogpost.pe
- Rentonline-a.strikingly.com
- Roomrents.wixsite.com
- Room-rent.wixsite.com
- M2-to-let91.com
- Housemates.tk
Special attention belongs to website Roomster.com, which is famous not only for its spams on Facebook. Its business has led to a number of negative feedbacks across the Internet, because it made people lose a lot of money, some of them even had to cancel their credit cards.
Roomster.com is officially a website, where you can easily find a flat to let or your roommate. It is possible that some people actually found their rental or roommate on this site, but negative comments and dissatisfied people predominate. These people advise others not to visit the page and not to enter your credit card information.
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How Roomster.com steals people?
This page tries to get your money from the first moment. It tries to act credibly and successfully at first glance.
The first step to losing your money is to register on this page. They will then ask you to enter your card details and offer you a three-day trial for almost $6.
This trial version will automatically charge you a fee of around $30 per monthly subscription. Or, if you want to read messages from potential roommates, you have to pay to access the on-site mailbox.
And what's the worst, most of the offers and demands are created by robots that overwhelm you with unnecessary content.
What to do, if you registered?
Customer support will certainly not help you in this case. Another option is to immediately contact your bank and announce fraud. If you are lucky, the bank will block your payment and you will not lose money. Also beware, to cancel your account is not enough and automatic payments can continue. You also need to cancel your subscription on Google Play!
How not to lose money?
Before you decide to use the services of any company, read reviews on the internet. If you find a lot of negative feedback, be careful. Especially pay attention if you have to enter your credit card details.
