It helps explain why their English isn’t great. The guy behind the profile is likely in Southeast Asia, so it explains when he slips up with some phrase from that region.

The company is real. The person the dad is talking to isn’t the real CEO. The public presence will all check out. If the dad can validate that publicly, the scammer found the info publicly and is just an imposter.

This is such a small step, but at least it’s a step. If politicians actually want to solve the problem, they have to prevent any legal entity from owning many single family homes. Make the limit something like 2, so a family can still have their cabin in the woods and their city home or whatever. So that you don’t flood the market and yank grandmas retirement plan of selling her home and moving to a retirement community start off big. For example starting this year no entity can own more than 100 homes. Next year it’s 90, then keep cutting by 10 a year till you get to 2. This will free up massive amounts of homes over the next 10 years. To plug the loophole of just spinning up LLCs to own houses, make it so corporations can only own multifamily residential of 4 or more units. Penalties need to have teeth as well. $100k fine per home initially, scaling up to seizing the property and selling to the highest bidder.

This will have the added effect of also preventing builders from just sitting on new builds till they get their ridiculous price. New builds will go to auction if not sold within a year of passing their certificate of occupancy.

There’s a lot more that’ll need to happen to keep rental apartments affordable as well, but getting corps out of single-family is a great start.