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Anyone looking to rent apartments/vacation rentals online. PLEASE beware of scams. They apparently are runnning rampant in Hawaii. I hate to admit it, but I was scammed twice. $6000 I donated ...................
Last edited by 7th generation; 02-27-2009 at 03:55 PM..
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Anyone looking to rent apartments/vacation rentals online. PLEASE beware of scams. They apparently are runnning rampant in Hawaii. I hate to admit it, but I was scammed twice. $6000 I donated ...................
Where did you find the post when you rented? How did the scam work? This is important so that others don't get hooked.
Last edited by 7th generation; 02-27-2009 at 03:57 PM..
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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Had a "carpenter" working for my company a few years ago. He didn't last long, was all "waha" as in mouth, and very little "hana", as in work. Was more than happy to lay him off. He was, however, a very good talker... He moved over to Oahu, talked his way into a remodel job out in Hawaii Kai, evidently got a lot of money up front.. The owners were on the mainland for the summer. He hired a few fellow flunkies to work on the house, and, put an add in the paper, saying that deposits were now being taken for rental of this beautiful home right on the water in Hawaii Kai. The only reason I know this is because I was kind of watching the local news one evening, heard his name mentioned, look at the TV, and there he is, mug shot and all. He had defrauded folks out of thousands of dollars. So, yeh, this stuff does happen, caveat emptor!!!!
Aloha and okolemaluna,,, is it REALLY windy out, or what????????
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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This guy was haole to da max!! Had pulled similar scams on the mainland, hence his presence in Hawaii. Think he's still doing time.. If you want a real scam artist, look no further than Madeoff, (with your money), and Stanford. How these guys live with themselves is beyond me..
Man, these rental scams scaring me, I put a deposit for vacation rental in Ewa Beach this July. I found it on VRBO, they had many listings. It seems legit but wonder if there is any way to find out for sure.
Haole huh... wonder where he learned that from.... his culture??
With name like Made Off... how can you trust um?
tonight might be a low.... 60........ burrrrrrrr.......
Auwe Kawena! Haole culture doesn't tell them to go steal! It does tell them to talk loudly and to talk proud about themselves, which is annoying, but it doesn't tell them to go steal and scam. Most folks of any culture are good folks, these kine guys that go scam are just evil. No particular group of people is more likely to be evil than any other.
Below 60 here! Fifty something. Freezing! Windy, wet! Lost my fuzzy slippas! But got an electric blanket. Ha!
Auwe Kawena! Haole culture doesn't tell them to go steal! It does tell them to talk loudly and to talk proud about themselves, which is annoying, but it doesn't tell them to go steal and scam. Most folks of any culture are good folks, these kine guys that go scam are just evil. No particular group of people is more likely to be evil than any other.
Below 60 here! Fifty something. Freezing! Windy, wet! Lost my fuzzy slippas! But got an electric blanket. Ha!
I am messing with ya mang... I got some haole friends . that I call friends!!!
I was trying to make a statement...... crime has no color. people think just the locals rip people off.
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