Christoph Willy Kaufmann
Complaint 271202 Details

I came to Copenhagen and for weeks was trying to find a place to live in. I tried a lot of different sources till one day in a Accomodation facebook group a message appeared on renting out a room. I send pm to the author and he gave me an email message of a landlord. I contacted the landlord and it came that he stayed in UK that moment. So he said me exactly this:

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I can understand your points that you want to see the place before you pay so here is a safer plan to arrange the renting.I can book my flight ticket down to Denmark and meet you inside my flat by Tuesday but of course i need assurance before i do,this is because i dont want to come without assurance and cos someone has wasted my time in the past.So what you do is,you go to western union office and transfer the rents and deposit together using your friend's name as receiver and use UK as destination,after the transfer send me the receipt of transfer as proof.So once i confirm this,i can book my flight ticket and i can meet you by Tuesday.So once you are okay with the place and confirm everything is okay,then i can give you the keys,then after we both go back to western union office and change the receivers name back to mine.
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I never tried Western Union before and didnt know how it works. But yes, I heard that money are not traceable if you use this system. But I didnt know that clercs of Western Union dont even check your ID as a reciever. This is how he bought me. I thought if anything happens, my friend or me can easily take the money back. This is why I did it. Kinda without hesitation. I was desparate at that moment. For weeks I was living at hostel and couldnt find ANYTHING. I thought it was my chance. And he bought me. I sent the money. And sent him the reciepe. The fun was that he was keeping in touch with me. Sent me his ID scan and behaved like everything is okay. At that moment I had read already that you actually dont need reciever's ID when you pick up the money. I was talking to the clerk and there was nothing that he could do. Gave me coke for free at least :) I lost 1.5k dollars that day. 1.5k dollars... And the worst thing: the (Inappropriate Content Removed) is out there. Trying to scam one more person with the same amount of stupidity as I have.

So, for google search:

Name: Christoph Willy Kaufmann
Skype: christoph kau
email: [email protected]
country: Unighted Kingdom