I Created a Fake Rental Listing on the News | AI Scam Consumer Alert

Описание: Consumer alert. AI can now build an entire rental listing out of nothing, and there is no original anywhere to check it against.

I sat down with Deanna Dewberry for a News10NBC Consumer Investigation and created a fake rental on camera: 47 Whitney Place in Fredonia, New York. Fake address, generated photo, and it looked exactly like the student rentals around the SUNY campus. It took seconds.

Before 2022, a scammer had to steal a real listing and swap the phone number. There was always an original sitting somewhere to compare against. Not anymore.

The three red flags before you send a deposit:
1. The rent is too low
2. The deposit is under one month
3. Nobody asks for a credit check

Every one of those is about friction, not pixels. A real landlord wants your credit report, your references, your paperwork, because they are the ones taking a risk on you. A scammer strips it away, because friction is the enemy of getting your money moved fast.

AI can generate a house. It cannot generate a credit check.

Tour the property in person whenever you can. If you cannot, paste the listing into AI and ask what is off about the image, and ask what a one bedroom actually rents for in that area.

September is REALTOR Safety Month. Most of that programming is about parking lots and open houses, which still matters. This is the version that is running right now while people are looking for housing.

Original segment: Consumer Investigation, Deanna Dewberry, News10NBC (WHEC-TV, Rochester NY).
Full story: https://www.whec.com/top-news/consumer-inv...

Jeremias JMan Maneiro is an AI strategist, keynote speaker and REALTOR with The Maneiro Team at REMAX Realty Group.
https://jmanai.com