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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sebastian Rew

My landlord hell: how a scammer took over my flat without paying me a penny in rent

So there I was, standing on the doorstep of my flat in Battersea, asking a stranger – a stranger who said his name was Otto – whether I could come in.

He looked every bit as bemused and suspicious of me as I most certainly was of him.

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