For weeks, Kerstin and Dirk Brauer tried to get to the website on which they had rented a holiday apartment at the beginning of the year – ostensibly from a Bad Camberg company. The police are investigating fraud.
Bad Camberg – Kerstin and Dirk Brauer are angry – and disappointed. At the beginning of the year, the couple from Elz booked and paid for a holiday home on the website ferienpartner.co – as they thought, with a Bad Camberg company. The site was no longer accessible on the Internet for weeks, but a similar one, where a Berlin company was listed as a contact person. In the email correspondence her contact “from Bad Camberg” assured me that it was maintenance work and that the site would go online again. At the same time, the police were investigating this fraud – both in the spa town and in Berlin. Yesterday the page with the Bad Camberger address could be found again.
Scam from Bad Camberg: The rip-off with the wanderlust
That’s what happened to the brewers: They wanted to go on vacation – but pandemic-friendly. So at the beginning of the year they came up with the idea, if hotels, restaurants, contacts are dangerous and a stay abroad is out of the question, to book a vacation home in Germany. Via the website ferienpartner.co they came across beautiful travel destinations in Germany and Denmark. The Mecklenburg Lake District, the Müritz – many things seemed attractive. They decided on Saxon Switzerland and booked a holiday home in Rosenthal-Bielatal. “It all looked very serious,” says Kerstin Brauer.
Frank Busse, your contact person for e-mail, also saw no problem in accommodating your daughter and dog. He even took precautions on his own in the event that there were pandemic-related risks. “We asked what it is like to cancel a trip if we cannot drive because of the pandemic,” reports Brauer. It was said that you yourself have an interest in protecting yourself. Also in the event that your own company should go bankrupt. Frank Busse sent a security certificate from R + V Versicherung. Finally, the financing: the holiday home should cost 900 euros. “If we pay within a week, only 810 euros,” says Kerstin Brauer. The lease, the conditions of arrival, the contact, the seal of approval – everything seemed to her to be absolutely solid. So the brewers made a spontaneous booking, transferred the money and looked forward to their trip.
Fraud on alleged website in Bad Camberg: “Holiday homes? They don’t exist here”
Then weeks of radio silence. In response to initial inquiries, there was a hint that the website was being waited, there could also be problems with the e-mail address. Answers to questions ended. So they made their way to Bad Camberg at Gisbert-Lieber-Straße 33. “The first time we saw red-white-black stickers on the mailboxes. The colors on the website were similar. We thought they were the company number and drove home again. ” But: A call to R + V Insurance revealed that the security certificate was forged. They drove back to Bad Camberg and filed a complaint with the Limburg police in mid-March.
In Gisbert-Lieber-Strasse, her request was already known: “A very nice woman came out of the house and asked, ‘Is it because of this holiday home company again?'” A lot of people had been there, including the police. Only: It is a residential building. There is no company there. The brewers tried to get their money back through the bank. The recall procedure cost ten euros – nothing has come back so far. “When we read the newspaper report in the NNP about the fraud, we fell from all clouds,” says Kerstin Brauer.
Even more domestic victims?
Because the police had reported that there were no victims in this area and because they did not know whether the investigation would lead to the desired result. As the police press office in Wiesbaden has now confirmed, there is at least one investigation in Limburg as well. The fact that the homepage is online again could help to get to the bottom of things, maybe. The new contact is called Frank again, this time Feldmann is given as the last name. “Otherwise everything looks the same as before,” say the brewers. The address has also remained the same, again at Gisbert-Lieber-Strasse 33 in Bad Camberg. (Petra Hackert)
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