\u2019n Paartjie van Worcester was amper die slagoffers van \u2019n nuwe slenter wat daarop fokus om voornemende huurders uit te buit.<\/p>\n
Susan en Wynand de Villiers van Worcester was op soek na die perfekte huis vir hul gesin van vier. Hulle wou graag \u2019n drieslaapkamerwoning met \u2019n groot tuin en \u2019n braaigebied gehad het. <\/p>\n
Toe Susan sowat drie weke gelede \u2019n advertensie op \u2019n plaaslike Facebookblad sien, was sy verstom met hoe perfek die woning was. Maar enkele ure later is sy met haar lewe gedreig en was sy amper R1 500 kwyt.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit was perfek. Dit was presies waarna ons gesoek het. Ek het dadelik die nommer in die advertensie gebel en dit is waar ons te\u00ebspoed begin het,\u201d vertel sy aan Standard<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u2019n Man het die oproep beantwoord en haar vertel van die huis. Sy was dadelik verlief daarop en wou \u2019n afspraak maak om te gaan kyk. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie man het met \u2019n swaar aksent Engels gepraat en dit was vreemd omrede die advertensie in Afrikaans was. Ek het gevra of ons dieselfde middag nog na die huis kan gaan kyk en hy het ons ingelig dat baie mense in die huis belangstel. <\/p>\n
\u201cHy het verduidelik dat ons R1 500 deposito moet betaal voordat ons na die woning mag kyk, en as ons goedgekeur word en dit wil neem, dan werk hulle dit by die deposito van die huis in. As ons nie belangstel nie, dan betaal hy dit dadelik terug. Ek was dadelik skepties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susan het die man, wat hom as ene Michael Matthews voorgedoen het, ingelig dat sy net verby die huis wou ry om te kyk en dat sy nie saamstem met die feit dat sy moet betaal om net na die huis te gaan kyk nie. <\/p>\n
Die gesprek het toe dadelik \u2019n lelike wending geneem.<\/p>\n
\u201cHy het my begin vloek en ges\u00ea ek moet mooi luister. Ek gaan nie die adres kry voordat ek die geld oorbetaal nie. Ek het verduidelik dat ek \u2019n saak gaan aanmeld omdat ek voel dis \u2019n slenter. Die man het doodgedruk en ek was ontsteld.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ure later het Susan se foon gelui en \u2019n vrou aan die ander kant het haar begin dreig.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie vrou het ges\u00ea sy weet waar ek werk en hulle het my Facebookprofiel gaan besoek. Ek was uiters geskok en het nie geweet wat om te doen nie. Hulle het vir my ges\u00ea ek moet nie iets dom en onverantwoordeliks doen nie en as hulle vasgetrek gaan word, sal hulle my en my gesin leed aandoen. Hulle het doodgedruk en intussen is daardie nommer nog die hele tyd af,\u201d verduidelik Susan.<\/p>\n
\n Standard <\/i>het in Augustus vanjaar ook berig oor soortgelyke slenters waarin die \u201cadverteerder\u201d ges\u00ea het aangesien die vraag na die eiendom so hoog is, moet mense eers \u2019n deposito betaal voordat hulle na die huis mag gaan kyk.<\/p>\n
Die plaaslike polisie het toe ges\u00ea kubermisdaad en soortgelyke slenters moet dadelik aangemeld word.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het nie \u2019n klagte aangemeld nie, maar het vir hulle \u2019n boodskap gestuur om te verduidelik dat ons nie moeilikheid wou h\u00ea nie. Ons wou net die perfekte huis h\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Intussen het die De Villiers-gesin \u2019n woning deur \u2019n plaaslike verhuringsagentskap gekry.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns trek op 1 Desember in. Ons is opgewonde, maar loer n\u00e1 die voorval oor die skouer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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