{"id":233279,"date":"2026-05-15T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233279\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:08:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-scammed-out-of-600-during-apartment-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233279\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Scammed Out Of 600 During Apartment Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man claims he and his family were scammed out of over $600 during an apartment search.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want this to happen to anyone else,&#8221; says Manach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manach tells News 12 that another man named Hemraj showed him an apartment on Underhill Avenue and asked for a deposit before Manach&#8217;s family could move in.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;First, I gave him $30. Then the second time, $500. Third time $100,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manach says he and Hemraj spoke for months about moving into this apartment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s been six months since he last heard from him, and now Manach is left with no apartment and no money.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;The last time he called me was Nov. 20, 2025. After that, he vanished,&#8221; says Manach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manach says he now wishes that he never trusted Hemraj.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I from Guyana. He&#8217;s from Guyana, you know, so I trust him. This guy could have left me in the street homeless. He don&#8217;t care nothing about us,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 was able to speak with Hemraj over the phone. He tells News 12 he plans to give the money back when they go to court.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stay with News 12 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man claims he and his family were scammed out of over $600 during an apartment search. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-233279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}