A TERRIFIED hotel worker has told how she stopped trying to retrieve money scammed from her by a fake rental agent when she discovered he was a violent brute who attacked women.
The Croatian woman – who is too scared of the man to go public – was tricked last month into handing over €2,100 to a conman for an apartment.
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She told the Irish Sun: “I didn’t suspect because I know him, I didn’t meet him from an advertisement. I know him for around a year.
“It was very, very stressful for me and it was disgusting. I work full time hours, I worked nearly two months to have that money.”
But she added: “I live alone here in Dublin. In the meantime I found out that he is a very dangerous man, that he had abused women, had punched them and given them scars with knives.
“In that moment I stopped with everything because €2,100 I can earn, but my life if somebody takes it, it’s gone. I didn’t even want to go the property anymore, I didn’t want to see him.”
Gardai are investigating the rip-off which is one of hundreds reported to them in recent months.
In 2021, more than €516,000 was stolen in 279 incidents, close to an average to €2,000 a time.
These scams are soaring as ruthless con artist take advantage of Ireland’s dysfunctional rental market.
Detective Detective Inspector Steven Meighan of the Garda National Economic Crime…
