Listing fraud
Advance-rent housing listing
A too-cheap flat listing collects a token via UPI, then the listing and number disappear.
Warning signs
- 01
The rent is far below other flats on the same street.
- 02
The owner is “out of station” and cannot show the house.
- 03
Photos are generic, or a reverse search shows them on other cities’ listings.
- 04
They want a token on UPI before you visit, to “block” the flat.
- 05
The name on the UPI account is not the name on any ownership paper.
Do not pay a token for a home you have not walked through.