At least two US based Guyanese men, have been left counting their losses after being ripped off by a Plaisance woman, who presented herself as a real estate agent and collected money from them to buy properties that turned out to be non-existent.  The woman has been identified as Constance Sandy.

The scheme started over a year ago.

One of the men told News Source that he sent $8 million to Guyana to purchase two properties that Sandy said she was selling through one of the local commercial banks. One of the properties, he was told, was located in South Ruimveldt, while the other was located on Church Street.

The young man said he had been introduced to the woman via phone by a Guyanese co-worker who thought he was purchasing real estate in Guyana too. The co-worker had already sent over $15 million to the woman to purchase properties and he was convinced it was “all legit”.

The man who spoke to News Source, said they were both ripped off and only discovered the fraud when the co-worker decided to travel to Guyana to see the properties he had purchased and realise they didn’t exist.

The woman had provided the two men with bank documents,which they thought were real, and even provided them with what appeared to be original land titles, with their names. All of those documents turned out to be bogus.

She had even sent photographs of the properties.

With those documents, being provided, the two men thought they were getting in on real estate deals in Guyana.

The Plaisance woman had reportedly claimed that as a real estate agent, she had links to the banks to know what properties they would be selling off.

Those links were all part of the fraud and the commercial bank she claimed she had done business with, had never had any business dealings with the woman.

After the woman was confronted by relatives of the two men and their attorneys, she reportedly admitted that the entire real estate set up was a fraud.

Police investigators were called in and she is expected to face charges.

One of the men has admitted that he should have done some more research on the woman before sending his money. He said he would admit that he had an “idiot moment”, but he really thought he was getting good deals on the houses.

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