Offered a room or home via TikTok, Marktplaats, Facebook or DM? Check the photo here (where else does it appear?), analyse the link without opening it, and walk through the standard fraud signals. Free, no account, checked against 1000+ Dutch agency sites.
Drag photos here, paste a screenshot (Ctrl/Cmd+V) or
Max 3 photos at a time. Screenshot? Crop it first so only the property photo is visible; that makes the match much stronger.
Your photo is resized in your browser, checked once and not stored.
We only analyse the address itself; nobody opens your link.
Tick what applies to your offer.
None of these signals ticked. Keep following the rules: view first, never pay upfront.
Around the introduction weeks, fake rooms appear via TikTok and social media, aimed mostly at (international) students. The pattern: photos of a real home, a sharp price, then an email or DM with two flavours: reserve directly by paying half the rent upfront, or a paid "viewing" that would supposedly be refunded. According to Vox, the Fraudehelpdesk registered 175 reports of this type of rental fraud in the first half of 2026, against 21 in the previous half year.
Both flavours are fraud. Charging for a viewing is not allowed, and a real landlord does not ask for rent or a deposit before you have seen the home and signed a contract.
Almost every fake listing borrows photos from a real one. We reverse-search your photo on the web and cross the locations with our own database: if the photo belongs to a listing on one of the 1000+ agency sites we track, you see that listing, with price and status. A copy at a different price falls through immediately.
We deliberately never open a pasted link. We only analyse the address: is it a social platform (no agency rents out there), a known agency site or rental platform, or a domain suspiciously similar to a real name? For unknown domains we check the registry for the domain age; fake agency sites are often days to weeks old.
Check the photo, not just the text: scammers copy photos from real listings. This scam check reverse-searches the photo on the web and cross-references the locations with the 1000+ Dutch agency sites WoonBusters tracks. If the photo belongs to a real listing with a different price or address, your offer is almost certainly a copy. Beyond that, always view first and never pay upfront.
Then the photo itself is real, but that says nothing about your offer. Compare the price, address and contact details with the original listing. The classic setup: a real agency home, re-offered via TikTok or DM at a lower price, with a request to pay upfront. The real agency knows nothing about it.
No. No matches is no all-clear: new, cropped or mirrored photos are not always recognised, and a scammer can use their own photos too. Always walk through the signal list as well. The main rule stands: view first, never pay before you have seen the home and signed a contract.
No. Charging for a viewing is not allowed in the Netherlands, even with a promised refund. A request for viewing fees, deposit or rent before you have seen the home is a core rental-fraud signal in the Fraudehelpdesk guidance.
No. Your photo is resized in your browser, checked once and then discarded; we only keep a computed hash and the result, for at most 24 hours, to speed up repeat checks. A pasted link is never opened by anyone: we only analyse the address itself (platform, known agency, domain age).
Do not pay (anything more) and do not share a copy of your ID. Report the suspicion to the Fraudehelpdesk; if you lost money, file a police report via the internet fraud route. The links are at the bottom of this page.
Sources reviewed, retrieved 23 August 2026. The police link is the national reporting route for internet fraud; the Fraudehelpdesk is the national fraud desk.
This is one slice of the data. The full study (prices, affordability, WWS compliance, speed and geography over March–May 2026) is free and quotable with attribution.