Fake proof-of-income is how bad tenants get keys.
Fabricated bank statements and doctored payslips are the most common way dishonest tenants pass income checks. By the time the first missed payment arrives, the lease is signed and eviction is costly. A forensic check on every application document catches the fraud before you commit to a tenancy.
$3,500+
average cost of evicting a non-paying tenant
1 in 6
rental applications contain misrepresented financial information
Minutes
to integrate TamperCheck into your application workflow
The problem
What fraud looks like in tenant screening
Fabricated bank statements
Applicants submit bank statements with edited balances, added salary credits, or removed debit entries to appear financially stable. Running balance plausibility and row alignment analysis expose the manipulation.
Inflated payslips
Gross pay figures are altered to meet the income-to-rent ratio required by the property manager. Arithmetic checks and font consistency across the payslip reveal the tampering.
Utility bill address manipulation
Utility bills with edited names or addresses are submitted as proof of residency. Issuer branding, billing period plausibility, and table integrity are all checked.
How TamperCheck helps
A forensic verdict in about a minute
Add a single API call to your rental application flow. Every bank statement, payslip, and utility bill an applicant submits is verified before your property manager reviews it - so your team only spends time on genuine applications.
What we check
- Bank statement balance plausibility across all rows
- Payslip gross-to-net arithmetic consistency
- Utility bill issuer branding and account number format
- PDF text layer vs raster discrepancy detection
- Font and spacing consistency across all financial fields
- Table row insertion and deletion fingerprints
Documents we verify
Common document types in tenant screening
Frequently asked
Common questions about tenant screening
How does TamperCheck catch fabricated proof of income for rentals?
TamperCheck inspects PDF structure, font metrics, running balance arithmetic on bank statements, gross-to-net consistency on payslips, and producer metadata. Fabricated income documents almost always break one or more of these checks - the verdict comes back in about a minute.
Can it work with screenshots and photos of bank statements?
Yes. The forensic checks adapt to the input format - PDFs get full structural inspection; photos and screenshots get pixel-level ELA, noise analysis, and AI-generation signature checks. The verdict format is the same.
How is this used in a tenant screening workflow?
Most property managers add TamperCheck at the document submission step of the rental application. Every uploaded payslip, bank statement, or utility bill is run through the API; the risk score gates the application's progression to lease execution.
What about applicants with legitimate but unusual income?
TamperCheck returns a confidence score with every verdict. Unusual but legitimate income patterns (commission-heavy, irregular pay periods, sole-trader) may reduce arithmetic confidence and surface as 'suspicious' rather than 'tampered' - routing to manual review rather than auto-rejection.
See it working on your documents
Start with $5 in free credits - no contract, no card required. Upload your first document and get a verdict in about a minute.