Fred McConnell, lake steward of the Wollaston Home and Cottage Association, said Wollaston Lake is “showing signs of stress”.
Two women say someone reached out to them through the P.E.I. Cottage Rentals Facebook page, took their money in return for a booking, and then shut off all communication with them. And they say others were victimized as well.As many as 40 people looking for a peaceful getaway on Prince Edward Island have claimed they were defrauded. Two women who lost money to a Prince Edward Island cottage rental scam are sounding the alarm.
Feeling it was safe to book, Lightfoot paid for the rental through the Square platform and received an email receipt."She seemed legit. She provided me her business licence, she provided me where she worked, and I'm like 'Okay, someone's not going to scam me if they're telling me where they work because they know I can find them.'"
A few months before Bartley was supposed to check in, she reached out to the person she had booked with to confirm a few details, but didn't get any response. The phone number she had previously used was now out of service, her Facebook messages were ignored, and the Charlottetown business had shut down.— Krista Bartley
Bartley did get her money back through her credit card company and reported the incident to police. Lightfoot also got her money back by reporting the fraud to her credit card company, but felt it was too complicated to report the incident to police since she no longer lives in the province. She did file a report about online fraud from her home in Ontario.The P.E.I. RCMP's media relations officer, Cpl.
"If you've found that you've become a victim of a particular scam, by sharing that with police, police can then help to inform the rest of the public," he said. "We can also make connections with other crimes and that helps with investigations."And certainly the primary goal would be to bring the person to justice in that particular crime."
With regard to cottage rental scams, White said it's not very hard to create a fake website, stealing images from elsewhere to post a fraudulent listing. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself, he said. "Look for established organizations that have a track record, that a presence in a business or in a community that you can verify through other means, a brick-and-mortar location with a phone number that you can call. Things like that can help address the uncertainty of the unknown," he said.
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