Fraud Spotlight #3: Serial Rental Fraud: 30 Properties, 20 Years, and a Screening Stack That Never Stood a Chance
A Wellington, Florida woman allegedly ran the same scheme nearly 30 times over two decades. Here is what it exposes about how multifamily screening still works today. What Is Serial Rental Fraud? Serial rental fraud is a deliberate, multi-year pattern in which the same person uses fabricated documents and multiple aliases to secure leases, never […]
Fraud Spotlight #2: Apartment Approval Scams Hit Multifamily—How Social Media Coaches Are Industrializing Rental Application Fraud
How a public-facing network of fraud coaches on TikTok, Instagram, X, and Telegram is turning rental application fraud into a packaged, priced, scalable product. And what that means for every leasing pipeline in the country. What Are Apartment Approval Scams? Apartment approval scams are a commercialized form of rental application fraud sold openly on social […]
Fraud Spotlight #1: Synthetic Identity Fraud Hits Multifamily—Lessons from a Federal Indictment
How a federal indictment in Massachusetts exposes the fastest-growing identity scheme in rental housing – and what it tells operators about the next thousand applications in their pipeline. What Is Synthetic Identity Fraud in Rental Housing? Synthetic identity fraud in multifamily housing occurs when someone uses a stolen Social Security number – often belonging to […]