Victims of timeshare fraud
Holiday home scam victims at risk of losing money a second time to fraudsters who pose as legal professionals offering to help.
Victims of timeshare fraud risk losing money to a second scam where criminals pretend to help them get cash back, experts warn.
Most will have spent thousands of pounds on a share in a property they can rent — only to find it didn’t exist or is nothing like pictures they were shown in a glossy brochure.
Now the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau warns fraudsters are going back to victims, posing as a legal professional or representative of a government agency in the country where they were going to buy the timeshare, and offering to help them retrieve money.