Scamlord.ai

Detect fake landlords and stop rental scams

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Detect fake landlords and stop rental scams

3 followers

Scamlord.ai is a web app that helps renters reduce their risk of a rental scam by detecting fake rental listings. The tool validates the contact information used on a listing by checking against common behavioral patterns used by rental scammers.

Launch tags:Web App•SaaS•Artificial Intelligence

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Scamlord.ai

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Hey product hunt! I'm Rico, co-founder/CTO of Onerent, a AI-driven residential rental service. We're super excited to release Scamlord.ai and thank you to @benln for hunting us! As life moves online due to recent events, finding housing is a bit dicier. Online scams are surging and fake landlords are taking advantage of social distancing rules to defraud renters of their money. Over 5 million US renters have lost money to rental fraud. We built a solution called Scamlord.ai that helps renters detect fake listings and stop "scamlords" by validating the contact information used in the listing. The tool is super simple to use. Just put in the details collected from the rental listing or from a "landlord" you're in contact with, and check for a scam. It works by tracking patterns in the types of properties targeted by defrauders and the phone numbers they use, specifically VOIP phone numbers. Right now, the tool requires at least the phone number of a "landlord", but we hope to add more based on your feedback. We'll also add a "Scamlord Hall of Shame" based on submissions, featuring the worst offenders. We want to educate renters of the dangers of rental scams and save the money, risk, and fear of rental fraud. Any details we verify as scam will help us build a database of scammers. Please let us know any of your feedback. Stay safe and healthy, and rent responsibly! - Rico P.S. - If you've encountered a rental scam before, forward us your scam emails: hi@scamlord.ai

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6yr ago

Scamlord.ai

Maker

Hey all! We made this tool because we've heard too many rental scam stories. We're curious to find out if a scam tracking tool like Scamlord.ai could be useful. Share any feedback or recommendations on how we can further develop the tool in this thread 👇

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6yr ago

Much needed tool. Great usecase for AI. Suggest adding landlord email too since that is the primary means of communication used by scammers. With api’s already for email risk scoring, this should be easy to add. All the best, as always.

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6yr ago

Scamlord.ai

Maker

@vinod_sharma1 thanks for the feedback and support! Good note about the email field. Right now we are collecting the email but in future versions we’ll incorporate those APIs to check the validity.

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6yr ago

What a good business idea this is excellent and that it is of great help to many people who sometimes do not know certain areas where they can be renting a house, really well

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6yr ago

Scamlord.ai

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@josegre90473431 Absolutely. Especially right now during the pandemic, rental scammers are taking advantage of social distancing rules and claiming they can't show you the property. Some are legit, some are Scamlords.

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6yr ago

Hi there! I saw Scamlord.ai today and found that it is awesome. I created !Unmasp earlier it is a directory cum blog of scams which is still running with daily improvement. You can check Unmasp here: https://www.unmasp.tech Unmasp and Scamlord bothe give powers to customers which is the most important thing in this online world. I love the way Scamlord works and heartfully appreciate it. I hope Scamlord gets all its traction and helps everyone out there. Wish you Good luck! If you ever wanted to connect with you feel free and DM me on IG https://www.instagram.com/boring... Best Wishes, Shaheer Ahmed

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6yr ago