Ich bewerbe mich um eine Wohnung. Ich habe einem Mieter eine SMS geschrieben, dessen Zimmer in der WG bereits 5000 Mal besucht wurde und vor einer Woche veröffentlicht wurde. Unmittelbar nachdem ich ihnen eine Nachricht geschickt hatte, erhielt ich die folgende Nachricht. Sein Profil sieht gut aus, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher
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Von Business_Recipe3029
12 Kommentare
Scam. Never send pass copy.
I would never send a copy of my passport to some random dude on the internet. I know it is difficult to find a place to stay, but the amount of identity theft being done on rental appartments is just insane. I’d at least watermark the copy so it can’t be used somewhere.
!housing
If you have not visited the apartment, then don’t send anything.
It switches between „du“ and „Sie“. That is because it’s machine-translated. If they are passing themselves off as German speakers, you know they aren’t.
It says that there are multiple „Zimmer“ available, but then there’s only one.
Apart from the ID copy – which scammers will use to roleplay as *you* being a landlord for further victims:
That mode of renting would be illegal in Germany. Copy-pasting from a comment I made on a recent post.
>Leases that have an end date and simultaneously can be „extended“ have no framework in German rental law.
>The default is an open-ended lease.
>A lease with an end date needs a legally accepted reason, stated in the contract, to be legal. All of those reasons are ones where the place literally cannot be rented out to anyone after the end date.
>If there is no correct reason stated, or if the reason no longer exists at the end date, there is no „extension“. Rather, the lease automatically turns into an open-ended one, which the landlord can cancel only under extreme difficulty, and which you can cancel with a three-month notice period.
>It doesn’t matter what your contract states, there is no „extension“.
Edit: As you noted yourself, the idea of you messaging them and immediately being offered a room is wildly unlikely.
scam
Never’!! There are many many and, deposit, pass etc: scammers
Scam.
Done by people who aren’t aware that „contract for one year, that is then extended year by year“ is not even legal in Germany.
if he agrees to an einzug im oktober, then its a scam. Otherwise, its just a desperate tenant trying to end their contract
100% scam. Why do they ask for ur ID when they don’t even see you
Nobody writes German like that, first they call you du and then Sie another red flag. I know the housing market is bad but please don’t fall for this.
Do not agree to anything before a Besichtigungstermin