What are the common contract traps?

In life, people often need to deal with people. Many businesses can't just agree verbally, but also have clear written documents, so they will sign contracts. As we all know, many people don't know much about the contract, and it is easy to fall into the trap of others and suffer losses. What if the contract trap is cheated? What are the common contract traps?

1, rental trap

Trap 1: defrauding housing rent

Some illegal intermediary companies, in the name of housing leasing agents, defrauded the owners of housing keys and a one-month vacancy period with various preferential conditions, and paid the rent by monthly payment. At the same time, they advertise low-cost rental to attract renters. If the lessee takes a fancy to this house, he should at least pay the rent by means of one mortgage and three payments, and more often, he should pay the rent by means of half a year or annual payment. Through this means, illegal intermediaries can accumulate a large amount of cash in a short time, and then wait for an opportunity to flee with the money, thus bringing huge property losses to owners and renters.

Trap 2: huge price difference

Illegal intermediaries use various preferential means to cheat the trust of the owners, and then in the name of not charging intermediary fees, they sell their houses in agent for owner at a very low price and rent them at the market price, earning a high price difference.

Trap 3: Pretending to be the landlord to defraud the agency fee

The illegal intermediary in this scam must first rent a suitable house as a prop, and then find the salesman of the company to pretend to be the landlord, and the rental price quoted to the customer is far lower than the market price. Whenever the customer is satisfied with the house, he signs a contract with the fake landlord and pays the agency fee. The fake landlord finds out various reasons and refuses to rent. When the customer asked the company to refund the money, the company said that both parties had signed the lease contract, the intermediary service had been completed, the landlord unilaterally breached the contract, and the intermediary fee would not be refunded.

Trap 4: Contract Trap

Whether the landlord or tenant entrusts an intermediary company to rent a house or rent a house for them, they must sign an entrustment contract with them. If you don't read the terms carefully, you are likely to fall into the trap dug by the intermediary company. The correct approach should be to verify the landlord's identity and property rights and other relevant documents, and sign a formal housing lease contract with the landlord, and pay the relevant expenses of the intermediary company after the property is delivered.

2. Decoration trap

Trap 1: disguised price increases, adding items and omitting items.

The first trap is that some decoration companies will win your favor through some preferential packages or discounted prices before signing the contract, but during the construction process, they will ask you to increase money or even go on strike for lack of materials or other reasons. We can judge whether the quotation is detailed and whether the brand name, quantity, specification, model and size of each material are indicated when we look at the decoration quotation.

Trap 2: steal the beam and replace the column, shoddy.

This second trap is that some companies tell you that they are using imported brand products in the construction, but in fact they are using some low-priced and inferior domestic materials, which is very important in concealed works. After all, it is hidden in the underground wall, and it is even more difficult for us to find it. No matter whether you are a full package or a half package, we'd better check the main materials ourselves to prevent the other party from stealing columns and shoddy them.

Trap 3: engineering outsourcing

The third trap is that some companies will hand over the street business to others instead of working as a team, which will be more obvious in the list with low total price or low profit. If so, once problems and contradictions appear, it will be difficult to solve them. Therefore, when we choose a decoration company, its decoration team and designer team should have an inspection, which must be professional and certified.

Trap 4: The explanation of decoration process is ambiguous.

This fourth trap refers to the ambiguity of some companies in the contract, such as directly ignoring the description of the process, or being vague, which will eventually lead to the phenomenon that the construction quality is not up to standard. Therefore, we must make it clear in the contract. If you don't understand anything in the contract, you must ask clearly, so as to ensure your own interests.

3. Commercial signing trap

Trap 1: fishing contract

Liars often use the contract to pay the first payment or a small amount of advance payment to the other party, and after gaining the trust of the other party, they defraud the whole payment, or pay a small amount of payment first, deliberately defrauding the whole payment. With the enhancement of legal awareness of enterprises, the deception of "empty gloves and white wolves" in the past, that is, using contracts to defraud all goods or loans, is rare. Many swindlers use down payment, a small amount of advance payment or goods as bait to achieve the purpose of cheating.

Trap 2: confuse the real with the fake

Liars mainly use fake official seals, licenses, certificates, bills of exchange, account numbers, and even fake ID cards as a cover to fabricate lies and cover up stories. Generally speaking, these people often appear to be very broad and "pie" and have a lot of connections by decorating the facade, or spend money lavishly, or say that they have a certain relationship with a certain leader. Once you sign a contract with them, you can't escape being cheated.

Trap 3: Double springs working together

This kind of swindlers often publish some false advertising information in newspapers and other media, such as "looking for processed flour bags and wooden box castings", and then sign an information intermediary contract with the parties who have heard of it as an intermediary, taking the opportunity to collect so-called information fees, project fees, intermediary service fees, etc. Then, let the contracting parties sign a false processing with another foreign partner swindler with an intermediary contract, and take the opportunity to collect quality deposit, performance insurance, material fees and other expenses. Because the drawings and designs are contradictory and flawed, it is impossible for the parties to make qualified samples. Of course, the victim didn't know and didn't notice this when signing the contract. In this way, the swindlers colluded with each other, and the two places joined hands. echo each other and * * * staged a double-spring drama of contract fraud.

Trap 4: stealing the beam and replacing the column

It can also be divided into two forms: public stealing and covert stealing. Sneaking is what is usually called "switching". Fraudsters use the terms of the contract to stipulate that the specifications, models and standards of the subject matter are not clear. Usually, they verbally agree to deliberately fill the small with the big, the inferior with the good, the cheap with the good, and the old with the new to achieve the purpose of fraud. Thieves mainly sign contracts for the sale of goods, such as consignment sales and joint sales, but they don't pay after selling the goods, but buy some fake and shoddy products with high quality and low price from other places in order to pay the bill or default on the payment.

What if the contract trap is cheated?

If a contract is defrauded, it may apply to a court or an arbitration institution for cancellation of the contract within one year from the date when it knows or should know the reasons for cancellation; Suspected of constituting a crime of contract fraud, the parties may report the case directly to the judicial organ.