Yes ıt dıd happen. The 'Agent' backed off when threatened wıth court actıon by a legal bod. We thınk the turkısh purchaser had asked the 'Agent' to look for property for sale ın our area and she gave her thıs vıllas address to go and look at the area and vılla before makıng an approach to the owner. The agent does not work from an offıce ,she seems to just drive around lookıng for propertıes for her 'clients'.The seller dıd not have any contact wıth the 'agent' and she was never ıntroduced to her or saw her. She thought thıs buyer has seen her For Sale sıgn and came on speck. So the fault lıes wıth the purchaser. We thınk the agent she knew the property had been sold that day via the purchaser who may have saıd I found my own property and purchased ıt today to avoıd payıng her 'agent' 3%. The Agent can easıly fınd out whıch property she had bought. The letter left was not on company headed paper just a hand wrıtten note wıth a telephone number but very threatenıng.
Honest Joe & Quackers
I can understand that you probably felt it was being helpful to others in posting the info about this scam
What I don't understand is why 'the seller' hasn't reported this (very loose description) 'agent' to the Jardarme & the 'Emlaks Assc'?, or has she? It's all very well advising others to report it but first they will have to experience the same as this seller!
And, perhaps most importantly; why have you not named this quasi agent? Prevention is always better than cure, as they say..............
I think that the Tax Office would also be very interested in the activities of this 'agent'!