Xuejie Q.

Please be careful about scams when looking rentals from this website.

It came to my intention after someone called me to inquiry about an ad posted on rentals.ca about a property that is under a purchase agreement between me and the current homeowner. The ad was posted on rentals.ca as a scam or fraudulent rental post since the listing is not authorized by me as a buyer. In addition, the listing monthly rent on the fraudulent ad is significantly lower than the current market price for a single detached house.

I immediately reported the ad on rentals.ca webpage. I got an email reply from rentals.ca, and later the ad was taken down. However, people kept calling me about an ad on rentals.ca. I went back to rentals.ca webpage, and found the same ad was up on webpage again, but in a different location, a few blocks away from the actual property location. I reported again.

However, this time, rentals.ca didn't take much action after my reporting. Lots of people kept calling me. I worried about very much and went up to rentals.ca webpage, send them a message through the site's "Contact Us" page, and reported the ad one more time. I also made a phone call to rentals.ca, but nobody answered my phone, and left message to them.

Though finally rentals.ca blocked the ads from their site. But one of the two fraudulent ads remains displaying the property after copying and pasting the original URL to a web browser, e.g. Chrome.

I am in the process of reporting this incident to Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre for fraud and cybercrime investigation.

I was trying to put a rental listing through Oodle using my gmail account. At the end of posting, it did not give me a feedback to say whether or not my listing has went through, but asking me to reload the page. Thinking of my posting didn't go through, I re-did the posting all over again.

After the re-posting, by checking from MY LISTINGS, I found I have two listings, but all of them are flagged as spam, and have been removed. I tried sending email to Oodle to dispute the removal of my listings. But no response. Very bad experience with Oodle!