Everyone familiar with the timeshare resale and timeshare rental market has heard at one time or another about the existing scams to separate both timeshare owners and potential buyers/renters from their money. We have given a description of many of these scams since the inception of our blog, the latest report is a fairly elaborate scheme including fake names and email addresses which we will post in order to keep others from being in contact with this person. This latest scam involves a number of different crimes which work together to scam one person out of the price of a rental. The names that we have found being used by this scammer so far are “Thomas Bresley”, “Lakisha Jessie”, “Therrion Wallace”, “Richard Mergan”, and “Jeffrey Curtis”. Some of the emails used by this individual are vc.tb01@yahoo.com and r.vacations01@yahoo.com. These may or may not be real names found by these individuals in an effort to sound legitimate. Below we will describe our theory on how this scam is put together.

The first step for this scammer is to steal a person’s credit card information in order to post an advertisement on the internet. Once the card is stolen a legitimate ad on the same or different website is copied, giving details of the unit being advertised. Once the listing is online the scammer then uses another fake identity to open a bank account which they will ask potential renters to deposit money into. When everything is in place the crook waits for an unsuspecting victim to contact them and ask for the rental on given dates, even though the person does not own at the given resort they say the unit is available and send further details, including a rental agreement contract, their fake banking information, and a request for the renter to make a deposit of anywhere from 50% to 70% of the agreed upon amount for the rental. Once the money is wired the amount is immediately withdrawn and the account is closed giving the renter little or no recourse to find the guilty party. There are a couple of signs a renter can use to spot these types of scams and make sure they do not fall victim, the first is most people will not give out their banking details so quickly to a perfect stranger. If they do give out their banking details it should raise a red flag if the name on the account is different than the name of the person you have been corresponding with. Secondly we recommend doing a simple internet search for any information they give you for example, name, phone number, email addresses, etc. Chances are this is not their first time trying this scam and if they try to use the same information more than once maybe someone has already reported the information and has outlined the scam on a website in order to keep others from being scammed.

Vacation Timeshare Rentals never recommends making payment for timeshare rentals via wire transfer, the information given out and the lack of knowledge of the other party exposes a great potential for fraud. If you have had any contact with any of these people we recommend ceasing all communication. We also invite you to post your story if you have been in contact with anyone listed above, all information will be helpful in trying to keep others from being defrauded and hopefully one day catching this criminal.

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