Roughly 30% of my applicants give me a false landlord name and phone number.That's after I interview and the applicants read the rental criteria.

I watched an episode of American Greed last night about a doctor who made billions falsely diagnosing & treating people for cancer they didn't have.

They changed the interest rates at closing and dropped my loan amount by several thousand dollars siting that I requested it, which is completely false. 

Falsely claiming there are multiple offers on a property carries some consequences, as you point out.

We had to remove the entire 'false bay window' and luckily the three windows still fit once the wall was flat.

@Mike Lambert You just wrote: "The era of building and selling anything in Tulum is over" This is tottaly false, not sure who shared this with or how you came up with this conclusion but its not true.

Also if you make any false statements to the seller this would fall under that as well.Do not enter into contracts if you are unable to meet the terms of that contract.

To the seller, that was absurd. 

I’ve had people provide references that I heavily suspect are fake, people with weird looking paystubs, false bank statements etc etc. been screwed over a few times for being too trusting.

The problem is this, any time you knowingly get somebody to agree to something based on false pretense, you could be accused of fraud.