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A number of things seem so off about this photo. The shadows cast from the playset itself are odd. The quality of the image looks to have been lowered not quite dramatically but to the point where if I showed this to people as a painting, I feel like people would be like wow, I can barely tell but yeah that’s a painting. So much about it doesn’t make sense.

For one, the way the photo was taken seems so deliberate. This is uncommon for proof of delivery photographs. It literally just needs to be a photo of the asset on location, ideally with other things on the property within the photograph. So either, we have an aspiring photographer/delivery driver or this photo was deliberately manipulated. The moodiness of it is actually impressive. I wish it were real, but I am not convinced. The striping, the spottiness, the resolution, the curious perspective on different parts of the photograph… I need to know what you guys think. Apparently, this has become an increasingly common problem with the dealers whom we buy contracts from for the financing on these assets. We’ve had customers use AI to show assets on fire, forge fire reports to corroborate the event, etc. We expect it from customers. But dealers fabricating delivery photos is bizarre. To what end, I asked myself, however coworkers have said that we potentially won’t buy the contracts until we have proof assets have delivered and customers are happy. Effectively, they’re fabricating deliveries to receive money from us, meaning they’re also forging contracts to send along with them.