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Real estate scam artist busted by Arnold Diaz
From PIX 11:
“I’m calling the police right now. I’m calling the police. You have no right to be here,” said Phivos Ioannou. He ordered PIX11 to leave his office at Astoria First Realty where we’d come after getting a complaint from Erica Rosen and her fiancé, Marine vet Miguel Rodriguez.
The couple had seen a listing online for a two-bedroom apartment for $2,500 a month. They met with Dino Ioannou, Phiovos’ son, who showed them the apartment. They loved it and gave Dino a $5,000 cash deposit for security and broker’s fee. The couple says Dino told them “the apartment was ours.”
But when they didn’t hear from Dino for a week, Erica Rosen says “we got in contact with the owner of the building and the owner said he never knew anything about us, and the apartment was never ours and he has five other applicants for it. He said he wants nothing else to do with us.” Miguel says “at that point we asked for our money back and Dino never wanted to give us our money back.”
Yes, we've seen this guy before.
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Astoria real estate broker Phivos Ioannou in federal prison
Ioannou pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud
BY Vera Chinese
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/astoria-real-estate-broker-phivos-ioannou-federal-prison-article-1.1034993
SCUM OF THE EARTH. SHUT THEM DOWN!!!
Diversity baby. Send this guy back to Greece or whatever second world country he originates from.
5 years in a Federal prison was not long enough for this scoundrel. Lock him up again...and this time throw away the proverbial key.
Lovely how he uses a gay pride flag on his storefront to gain popularity.
Jorgie Glekas I never heard of Jorgie Glekas
Oh That Jorgie Glekas,yes he bought me a BMW and lent me his credit card because I got him a sweet deal on a coackaroach rat infested basement apartment for $2000 a month
Apartment Tours only $5000 dollars, call Pviose at Astoria First Realty and reserve your spot on our guided tour!!!
New Policy NO PICTURES!!
Gay pride flag?? You do know he's Greek right?
I leave around the corner from this place and they are shut down but I hear they moved down a few blocks down on 31st avenue
This guy needs a beatdown really bad!!! he did time and still doing it !
Home invasions are a block buster scam (Criminal Minds, Crossing the Line)
I was born in Astoria general hospital way back when and all that I can say is that this is what the greeks bring to to table scam scam scam not all but a large % of them are nothing but EUROTRASH!!!!! All they ever do is give neighbors a hard time hoping that they get sick n tired of all the nonsense and sell them there home so they can load it up with illegal apts I can almost guarantee that every greek owned home has one or more illegal conversions in it furthermore I know of people who have used greek brokers for rental or sales and were scammed what they will do is after they sign you up they bring by supposed clients who do nothing but bad mouth the property as the listing is near to end they will come in with a lowball offer on a rental listing a personal friend of mine used a greek broker the apt was fully renovated and mint condition mind you the guy works in construction after sitting with an empty apt for 2 mos he sent a close friend to the brokers office posing as a prospective client he told the broker what he was looking for rooms amenities location price range of course my friends apt fit the description perfectly would you believe he was shown almost a dozen apts but never the friends apt after the listing expired the friend signed with another broker (lost 3 mos rent @ $2400per mo)and rented his apt in less than a week thx to the greeks Astoria is now an overcrowded shithole
I thought the Greeks all sold to Muslims in Astoria and fled to whitestone?
Isn't he supposed to be on probation?
He seems to really hate Greeks but Fivos Ioannou is from Cyprus. Do you hate Cypriots too?
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