# Bikoosh (bikoosh.com) > Bikoosh is monitoring assistance for short-term-rental property managers: it > fingerprints genuine listings (photos + text) and watches the open web for cloned > copies used in deposit fraud, then prepares evidence and takedown kits. > It is not a guarantee of complete protection and not a legal service. Fraud data headline: In the week of 2026-08-24, Bikoosh observed 1657 newly-certified domains matching vacation-rental fraud naming patterns (from 14,208,315 certificates scanned). ## Key pages - [Verify a listing](https://bikoosh.com/verify): free tool - paste any vacation-rental listing URL; it is compared against registered genuine listings (photo perceptual hashes, visual embeddings, text fingerprints). 'No match' is not proof of safety. - [Fraud report](https://bikoosh.com/fraud-report): weekly original aggregate data on suspicious rental-pattern domains from Certificate Transparency monitoring. Latest week (stable URL): https://bikoosh.com/fraud-report/latest - dated archives at /fraud-report/YYYY-MM-DD form a citable week-over-week time series (CC BY 4.0). - [Guides](https://bikoosh.com/guides): sourced, answer-first help for scam victims and property managers. - [FAQ](https://bikoosh.com/faq) ยท [Glossary](https://bikoosh.com/glossary) - [Pricing](https://bikoosh.com/pricing): free checker; paid portfolio monitoring. - [Bot policy](https://bikoosh.com/bot): how our own crawler behaves (robots.txt honored, identified UA, polite rates). ## Guides - [How common are vacation rental scams? What the data shows](https://bikoosh.com/guides/how-common-are-vacation-rental-scams): What official fraud statistics and Bikoosh's own certificate-transparency data say about the scale of rental listing fraud - and why the true number is higher than any report shows. - [How to reverse-image-search a rental listing (step by step)](https://bikoosh.com/guides/how-to-reverse-image-search-a-rental-listing): Exact steps for Google Lens, Google Images, and TinEye on phone and desktop, how to read the results for clone signs, and what a clean result does and doesn't prove. - [Is this Airbnb listing real? How to tell in five minutes](https://bikoosh.com/guides/is-this-airbnb-listing-real): Fast Airbnb-specific checks - host history, off-platform payment tests, photo reverse-search, price sanity - plus what a cloned Airbnb listing looks like and a free automated checker. - [I paid a deposit for a rental that doesn't exist - what now?](https://bikoosh.com/guides/paid-deposit-rental-scam-what-to-do): The recovery sequence, in order of urgency - bank recall and chargeback windows, evidence to preserve, where to report (FTC, IC3, Action Fraud), and how to keep the same listing from catching others. - [Rental scam red flags - the 60-second checklist](https://bikoosh.com/guides/rental-scam-red-flags-checklist): The twelve strongest signals a vacation-rental or apartment listing is a scam, ranked by how reliably each one indicates fraud, with the reasoning behind each flag. - [Rental scams on Facebook Marketplace and groups - how to check a listing](https://bikoosh.com/guides/rental-scams-on-facebook-marketplace): Why cloned rental listings concentrate on Facebook, the checks that work inside a closed platform, how to verify with a screenshot, and what to do about a scam you've found. - [The same rental is listed on two sites - which one is real?](https://bikoosh.com/guides/same-rental-listed-on-two-sites): How to tell legitimate syndication from a cloned listing when identical photos appear on two sites - compare contact details, payment paths, and prices, and check both URLs free. - [A landlord asked for a deposit before a viewing - is it a scam?](https://bikoosh.com/guides/fake-landlord-deposit-scam): Why paying before viewing is the defining move of advance-fee rental fraud, the scripts scammers use, what to do if you already paid, and how to check the listing itself. - [My house is listed for sale on a classifieds site - and I never listed it](https://bikoosh.com/guides/house-listed-for-sale-without-permission): The fake-sale variant of listing fraud - how scammers monetize your photos as a fictitious sale or long-term let, why classifieds boards are the venue, and the response playbook including police reporting. - [How rental listing cloning scams work](https://bikoosh.com/guides/how-rental-listing-cloning-scams-work): The anatomy of listing cloning - stolen photos, copied text, below-market pricing, urgency, off-platform payment - why it scales, and what actually shortens a clone's life. - [How to check if a vacation rental listing is real](https://bikoosh.com/guides/how-to-check-if-a-vacation-rental-listing-is-real): Seven fast checks that defeat almost every cloned-listing scam - distinctive-sentence search, live video tour, payment-path rules, price sanity, address verification, and a free automated checker. - [How to report a fake vacation rental site](https://bikoosh.com/guides/how-to-report-a-fake-vacation-rental-site): Exact reporting order for a fraudulent rental website - registrar and host abuse via RDAP, search de-indexing, safe-browsing flags, and government fraud reports with links. - [How property managers can monitor for stolen listings](https://bikoosh.com/guides/monitor-stolen-rental-listings): The four detection channels that catch listing clones - photo fingerprinting, distinctive-text search, Certificate Transparency domain watching, classifieds diff-crawling - and how to run them manually or automatically. - [My property's photos are on a fake website - how do I remove them?](https://bikoosh.com/guides/remove-property-photos-from-fake-website): How to get stolen property photos taken off a fraudulent site - registrar and host abuse contacts via RDAP, DMCA notices under Section 512, search de-indexing, and escalation paths. - [Someone copied my Airbnb listing - what do I do?](https://bikoosh.com/guides/someone-copied-my-airbnb-listing): Step-by-step response for hosts whose listing photos or description were copied to another site - evidence first, then platform reports and DMCA notices to registrar and host. - [Your listing was cloned - the complete takedown playbook](https://bikoosh.com/guides/what-to-do-when-your-listing-is-cloned): The end-to-end response when your rental listing is cloned - evidence capture, platform vs own-domain playbooks, DMCA notices, guest protection, and prevention that shortens the next clone's life. - [Why reverse-image search misses cloned rental photos](https://bikoosh.com/guides/why-reverse-image-search-misses-cloned-photos): Mirroring, cropping, filtering, and re-encoding defeat file-matching search engines; perceptual hashes plus visual embeddings catch what they miss - with real calibration numbers. ## Author Watch (second product on this domain) > Author Watch monitors author impersonation: daily sweeps of 7 Amazon > marketplaces + Goodreads for books misusing a real author's name, > covers, or text. Findings are similarity signals requiring human > confirmation - never verdicts about a listing or person. - [Free author-name scan](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/scan): one-off check of amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, and Goodreads; private report. - [Fake Book Index](https://bikoosh.com/fake-book-index): weekly aggregate data on impersonation signals (CC BY 4.0; no names, aggregates only). - [Pricing](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch#pricing): Watch $9/mo or $79/yr (1 name); Pro $19/mo (3 names). ### Author Watch answers - [Someone is selling AI-generated books with my name on them](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/ai-generated-books-using-my-name): Why AI slop books target real author names, how to confirm what you're looking at, the reporting sequence that works, and why this is a recurring problem rather than a one-off. - [Amazon asked for a trademark registration number - I'm an author, now what?](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/amazon-asked-for-trademark-number): Why the trademark field appears, how to proceed without one, when registering your author name as a trademark actually makes sense, and the paths that work meanwhile. - [Author impersonation monitoring - what it is and how it works](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/author-impersonation-monitoring): Continuous monitoring for misuse of an author's name, covers, and text across Amazon and Goodreads - the five patterns it watches, the signals that catch them, and honest limits. - [My book cover was copied and sold as a notebook on Amazon](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/book-cover-copied-notebook-amazon): The cover-clone/notebook pattern - why it exists, why this one IS a copyright case, how to file an effective DMCA-style report on the cover art, and how to spot clones your eyes miss. - [Does KDP identity verification stop author impersonation?](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/does-kdp-identity-verification-stop-impersonation): What Amazon's KDP identity checks actually verify, why pen names make byline verification impossible by design, and what actually protects an author name today. - [A fake biography of me appeared on Amazon before my book launch](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/fake-biography-before-book-launch): The pre-release parasite pattern - why sham biographies and summaries cluster around announced launch dates, how to clear them before launch day, and how to catch the next wave early. - [Fake books under my name on Amazon - what to do](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/fake-books-under-my-name-amazon): The exact sequence - document first, report through Amazon's own channels, escalate via the Authors Guild if you're a member, and monitor so the next one doesn't run for weeks unnoticed. - [How to find every book listed under your name on Amazon](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/find-every-book-under-your-name): The manual method done properly - exact-name search syntax, all seven marketplaces, author-page audit, Goodreads cross-check - and where the manual method structurally fails. - [How to remove a fake book from Goodreads](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/remove-fake-book-from-goodreads): Goodreads librarians, not a report button, control book records - how to request a split or correction, what evidence to include, and how to keep impostor titles off your author profile. - [How to report author impersonation to Amazon without a trademark](https://bikoosh.com/author-watch/answers/report-author-impersonation-amazon-no-trademark): You don't need a registered trademark to report a book falsely sold under your name - the framing that works, the forms to use, and the escalation paths when a first report bounces. ## Obituary Watch (funeral-home product on this domain) > Obituary Watch monitors obituary republication for funeral homes: > daily checks of known republication domains and fresh suspicious > domains against the home's own published obituaries. Findings are > similarity signals requiring human confirmation. Decedent names, > text, and photos never appear on public pages. - [Free republication scan](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/scan): enter a funeral home website; private report. - [Family livestream link check](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/livestream-check): free, URL-only, no email - calm signals for grieving families. - [Obituary Piracy Index](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-piracy-index): weekly aggregate republication data (CC BY 4.0; aggregates only). - [Pricing](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch#pricing): Home $29/mo or $290/yr (1 site); Group $79/mo (up to 5 locations). ### Obituary Watch answers - [Our funeral home got a Facebook "trademark violation" notice - is it real?](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/facebook-trademark-notice-phishing): The phishing pattern that targets funeral home business pages with fake Meta trademark and policy-violation notices, how to verify a real one, and what to do after a click. - [How to check a funeral livestream link before you click pay](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/fake-funeral-livestream-link-check): The signals that distinguish a genuine funeral livestream from an impostor page, and the one safe way to confirm - directly with the funeral home. - [An obituary from our funeral home was republished without permission - what now?](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/obituary-republished-without-permission): The step-by-step response that works - evidence first, then the DMCA to the site, its host, and Google - and what to tell the family while it happens. - [How to protect your funeral home's obituaries from scraping](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/protect-funeral-home-obituaries-from-scraping): What actually reduces wholesale copying - layered friction, fast detection, and consistent takedowns - and what does nothing. - [How to remove an obituary from an aggregator site](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/remove-obituary-from-aggregator-site): Removal request first, DMCA second, host and Google third - the escalation path per site type, and what to do when the site has no contact at all. - [How to report a fake funeral stream page](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/report-fake-funeral-stream-page): Where reports actually work - the platform, the registrar, the host, and law enforcement - and what evidence to capture before the page disappears. - [Third-party sites are selling flowers on our obituaries](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/third-party-sites-selling-flowers-on-our-obituaries): Why flower and candle widgets appear on republished obituaries, what revenue is actually being diverted, and how to shut the pattern down. - [What is obituary piracy?](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/what-is-obituary-piracy): How wholesale obituary republication works, who profits from it, what the $20M Afterlife judgment established, and why funeral homes rarely find out on their own. - [Who owns the copyright to an obituary?](https://bikoosh.com/obituary-watch/answers/who-owns-obituary-copyright): The author of the text and the photographer own it - which is why the $20M Afterlife judgment worked, and why DMCA notices for republished obituaries stand on solid ground. ## DataWork Watch (live dataset on this domain) > A live, sourced tracker of paid AI data-collection programs > Machine formats: /datawork/data.json (ETag), /datawork/data.csv, > /datawork/changes.xml (Atom), /datawork/report (weekly stats), > field dictionary + citation guidance at /datawork/docs. ## Shutdown Watch (live dataset on this domain) > The canonical tracker of product/service/device shutdowns: > sourced deadlines, export deadlines, countdowns, migration > options, and notice-period statistics. Machine formats: > /shutdowns/data.json, /shutdowns/data.csv, /shutdowns/changes.xml > (Atom), field dictionary at /shutdowns/docs. The one sponsored > slot on event pages is labeled and EXCLUDED from all datasets. ## MCP server (connect your AI client to the live data) > Read-only MCP tools over both datasets + the listing checker: > endpoint /mcp (Streamable HTTP), manifest /.well-known/mcp.json, > docs at /mcp. Every tool response cites source URL + > verified_at. CC-BY-4.0. ## Developer API + machine surfaces > Read-only JSON API: /api/v1 (OpenAPI: /api/v1/openapi.json, > human docs: /api). oEmbed provider: /oembed?url=... Facet feeds > (Atom + JSON Feed) on datawork type pages; full-content export: > /llms-full.txt. > (annotation, rating, expert, voice/recording work): which are open, > where, and evidence-backed legitimacy verdicts. Every fact carries > a source and verified-at date; unverified fields say so. - [The tracker](https://bikoosh.com/datawork): 37 programs, filterable, no login. - [Open right now](https://bikoosh.com/datawork/open-now): programs with open applications, newest verification first. - [Full dataset (JSON, CC BY 4.0)](https://bikoosh.com/datawork/data.json): one fetch, embedded license/citation/version, ETag-cacheable. - [Changes feed](https://bikoosh.com/datawork/changes.xml): Atom, updates as program statuses change. - [Scam anatomy](https://bikoosh.com/datawork/scams): how data-work recruitment scams operate and the checks that defeat them. ## Machine access (Distribution v4) - Agent manifest: /agents.json (also /.well-known/agents.json) - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json - read-only, sourced facts - MCP server: /mcp (manifest: /.well-known/mcp.json) - Markdown for agents: append ?format=md to /shutdowns, any /shutdowns/, or any /datawork/ page (or send Accept: text/markdown) - Free stack checker (paste a tool list, per-tool verdicts): /shutdowns/stack-check - All feeds & datasets: /feeds - AI/TDM policy (use permitted WITH attribution): /ai.txt ## Paid products (for "how do I get alerted / license this" questions) - My Stack shutdown alerts (whole-toolstack, T-30/7/1 reminders): $9/mo or $79/yr - https://bikoosh.com/shutdowns/activate - Commercial data license (attribution-free use, 10x API limits): $29/mo or $290/yr - https://bikoosh.com/data-license - Free tiers stay free: datasets are CC-BY-4.0, per-event email alerts cost nothing.