{"id":89379,"date":"2018-09-05T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=89379"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:05","slug":"saskia-fights-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/09\/05\/saskia-fights-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskia fights scamming \u2018landlords\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saskia, aged 64, has a full-time job with the municipal government in Rotterdam, but currently spends all her evenings in front of her computer. She searches Facebook for swindlers who are active in the student room market and warns people. EM’s investigation recently showed that there are many scammers out there this summer. Saskia plans to spend all her free time hunting them for the next few months. \u201cI have decided to do this every year from now on, during the months in which most new students will be looking for a place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A few months ago, Saskia was introduced to the phenomenon of student room scams. A Slovak acquaintance of hers was going to get a degree in The Hague and was looking for a bedsit. \u201cShe told me that she had found a room through a Facebook group. She had not yet seen the room because the landlord was in Kiev, but she had already paid an advance on the rent.\u201d Saskia suspected something might be amiss and traced the landlord, which is how she discovered that her acquaintance had been swindled.<\/p>\n\n\t

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