# Detect tampered and deepfake Ejari Certificate > Ejari is Dubai's mandatory rental-contract registration system run by the Dubai Land Department, and the Ejari certificate is the registration receipt proving a tenancy exists on the official record. DEWA electricity connection, family visa sponsorship, and rental disputes all flow through it, so a tenancy that cannot produce a matching Ejari registration is a rental the emirate does not recognise. Fraud fabricates certificates for informal tenancies or edits dates to bridge gaps. **Canonical URL:** https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/ejari_certificate **API document class:** `ejari_certificate` --- ## What a genuine Ejari certificate contains The certificate carries the Ejari registration number, the tenancy contract's dates and value, the premises' details including the DEWA premise number, and the landlord and tenant identities, issued against a contract that was itself registered through the system. Renewals produce new registrations, and the certificate's dates must match the contract behind them. Because registration happens through approved channels tied to the tenancy's legal documentation, the certificate should cohere with the contract, the DEWA account, and the payments in the file. A certificate whose contract value or dates contradict the tenancy documents around it was assembled to regularise a tenancy after the fact, a real but distinguishable pattern. ## How Ejari certificate forgeries are made ### Certificate-versus-contract coherence The registration number, value, and dates on the certificate must match the tenancy contract it registers. Disagreement between the two means one of them was edited, and the certificate's dates are the usual target. ### Registration-number structure Ejari numbers follow the issuing pattern, and a malformed or reused number indicates a hand-built certificate rather than a system output. ### Premises identity The DEWA premise number and property details tie the certificate to a physical address. Details that do not resolve to the claimed property, or that shift between documents, mark a composite file. ### Figure-level print forensics Edited dates and values show up as font passes and realigned digits inside the printed fields, since those are the only regions a forger touches. ## What TamperCheck checks on an Ejari certificate TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class. ### Barcode and QR payload comparison Encoded payloads are decoded and compared against the human-readable values printed alongside them. Editing the visible text without re-encoding the barcode is a common and highly detectable mistake. ### Letterhead, logo, and issuer plausibility Issuer branding is checked for resolution and compression consistency against the body text it sits on. A logo lifted from a website carries the signature of its source, not of the document. ### Date and validity consistency Issue, expiry, and period dates are checked against one another and against the file's own creation metadata, which catches backdating and validity extension. ### And many more checks The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on an Ejari certificate. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks. ## Who verifies an Ejari certificate, and why UAE banks, visa sponsorship desks, DEWA, and landlords' agents. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging. ## How to verify an Ejari certificate in 4 steps 1. **Collect certificate and contract.** Get the Ejari certificate together with the tenancy contract it registers, since the reconciliation runs between the two. 2. **Match the registration.** Compare the certificate's number, dates, and contract value against the contract's own terms. 3. **Resolve the premises.** Check the property details and DEWA premise number against the address claimed in the file. 4. **Run a forensic check on the file.** Certificates are system outputs, so edits are localised and findable. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across registration structure, contract coherence, and print integrity, returning a risk score from 0 to 100 with findings tied to specific regions of the image. ## Frequently asked questions ### Why does Dubai register every tenancy in Ejari? Registration puts the contract on the official record, which unlocks DEWA connection, family visa sponsorship, and access to the rental dispute centre. That is also why the certificate is trusted: it exists only because the contract was filed. ### Can I get an Ejari certificate for an informal tenancy? Only by registering the contract through the proper channels, which requires the documented tenancy. Certificates that appear without a matching registered contract, or whose details contradict the contract shown, deserve escalation. ### What does an Ejari number look like? It is the registration identifier the system assigns, printed on the certificate and tied to the specific contract and premises. Numbers that break the issuing pattern, or that appear on certificates for different properties, mark hand-built documents. ### How does TamperCheck verify an Ejari certificate? TamperCheck weighs the certificate against the tenancy contract in the file, checks the registration-number structure and premises details, and inspects dates and values for localised edits. Uploads are processed ephemerally and not stored, with a risk score from 0 to 100 and findings tied to specific regions. ## Related document types - TamperCheck Forensic Report: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/forensic_analysis_report - Unknown: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/unknown --- Try TamperCheck now: https://tampercheck.ai/dashboard · Docs: https://tampercheck.ai/docs · Pricing: https://tampercheck.ai/pricing