NSW renters encouraged to join online scheme to avoid rental bond fraud

By Lucy Cormack, Consumer Affairs Reporter
Updated April 16 2016 - 9:13am, first published 5:00am
Humiliated: Rani Peluso and her husband paid their rental bond in cash, little did they know it had been pocketed by their real estate agent. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Humiliated: Rani Peluso and her husband paid their rental bond in cash, little did they know it had been pocketed by their real estate agent. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

Real estate agents have been prosecuted for fraudulently taking $2.6 million in rental bonds, strata fees, home sales and deposits, including one real estate agent who illegally took $789,000.

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