Renting an apartment in another country by Tiago Medeiros

   

       All of us, who are students or workers when we have moved  to another country, we need to find an apartment to live. It sounds easy but is not. Usually, we should do it through the internet ant this make us vulnerable. Unfortunately, there are persons who want cheat and take our money, therefore, be careful when you have to do something related to money on the internet.
      When I was in Brazil, before coming here in Montreal, I was looking for apartments in some websites made for it and of sales other thing too. It is not easy to choose a "house", even if temporary, using the internet to do something so important. I was attempting to find a good well located apartment near a metro station a few days and finally, I had found one.
      Everything seemed perfect. Good pictures, furnished, it was not expensive. Therefore, my wife have sent an email to the owner of the apartment. One day after that, We have received the answer about that apartment. The owner just spoke French , so my wife stated to keep touch with him because I do not know speaking anything in French.
     In accordance with my wife, he have said that he was em Paris end that apartment was of his daughter and he created an atmosphere of confidence. Suddenly, he asked for my wife to do a money transfer by Wester Union to show that we were really interested in that apartment. We had thought about it ( a lot ) and we had read what the owners usually do when foreign students, with no credit in the bank, had to do to rent a apartment. Sometimes they ask 3 or 4 months of early rentals and that situation have seemed "normal".
     We were almost doing the transfer for him when we had decided read more about what was the Wester Union  and how to use it, when we read, in the same website with we had found the advertisement of that apartment, this:

     To sum up, we almost lost our money thinking that it was not possible happens with us in Canada.
In Canada? No way!  We are deceived. It can happens anywhere. We have found a lot of these fakes advertisements on that website (craiglist), therefore, be careful  with your dear money in websites.