{"id":89552,"date":"2018-09-12T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?post_type=dossier&p=89552"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:05","slug":"the-housing-scam-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"em_special","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/specials\/the-housing-scam-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Housing Scam Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if arriving into a new city wasn’t hard enough, international students are finding it increasingly difficult to find a new place they can call home. Now, more than ever, students have to fight a new antagonist: scammers!\u00a0EM went undercover in the world of student housing fraud.<\/p>\n

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The high demand for housing within Rotterdam has brought an unprecedented amount of online scammers preying on new students. With no prior experience in finding a room, and with limited knowledge of their new surrounding, international student have become the most vulnerable group towards these housing scams. To make matters worse, it seems no places is safe as scammers have consistently propagated throughout social networks and professional housing websites alike. Can you really trust the person on the other side of the screen?<\/p>\n\n\t

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