She was blown home - "Hard to believe"

It was in July that Isabelle Byberg desperately searched for somewhere to live in Uppsala. She had recently separated from her partner and needed a roof over her head for herself and her daughter. She put out a request on social media, and got a bite.

A woman heard about her and offered an apartment in Flogsta.

- We signed a contract at the station.

But how could you sign a contract without seeing the apartment?

- She offered to show the apartment and she seemed convincing and reliable.

It is in a student apartment in Flogsta in Uppsala that the housing bluffs are suspected of releasing each other this summer. With the promise of moving in shortly, a woman signed a contract with students, those who got a new job in Uppsala and single people. Isabelle Byberg was one of them.

The woman demanded that everyone paid in advance, SEK 500, SEK 7,200 or SEK 14,400 are sums that the housing applicant said they had paid in.

The only problem was that the woman herself did not sign the contract, in addition, it was a student apartment she bluffed with. As the move-in date approached, it became quiet. Now she is suspected of a dozen cases of advertising fraud in Uppsala.

- When she called and told me that a security door needed to be replaced, and that I would receive a discount on the first rent if I paid half, which I thought was wrong.

I had already paid a deposit and the first rent. A total of SEK 14,400.

What happened next?

- It went quiet. She didn't answer the phone.

And Isabelle Byberg is not alone in being fooled. A woman and her son were also founded.

- I wonder when I will get my SEK 7,200 back, says the woman to SVT News Uppsala.

Today she lives with her son and two other adults in a room in Gränby.

The police have received 10 reports against the woman, who is also suspected of having committed similar crimes elsewhere.

- It was not nice to cheat, usually vulnerable people, in this way. I hope the police get her, says Isabelle Byberg.