A group of Russians deceived by real estate...
The Odnodolshiki.ru website - whose name mirrors the popular Russian Facebook equivalent Odnoklassniki.ru - says there are some 500,000 people in Russia who have been cheated out of money they invested in construction projects that were meant to provide them with apartments.
The site says many of them invested all they had in new apartments and now don"t even have a roof over their heads, swelling the numbers of Russia"s homeless. It aims through social-networking to develop strategies to solve the problems of these defrauded investors.
The site publishes a list of would be tenants with the addresses of the buildings they invested in, lists of those responsible for construction and the sums of money invested in projects, and information on criminal cases. The list of duped investors contains some 19,946 people.
Around 800 people have joined the network already and some 300-400 people visit the website daily.