Connection to AI seems tenuous. The article mostly just juxtaposes an existing scam with speculation like "An AI tool might be able to recognize a vacant property in a database faster than a human could or identify homes without mortgages attached to them" - which doesn't really make sense for what should already just be an API query. Plausible the current bottleneck is that the data is unstructured (e.g: PDF scans of documents) which OCR + LLM could help extract into a database? But at that point I feel you may as well run the same article about SQL, Excel, or photocopiers if it's just that it makes data structuring easier and a minor step in this scam happens to be checking for homes with no mortgage.
The one linked case of supposed actual AI usage, a looping video of a woman staring straight ahead not speaking or responding to requests, just sounds like the virtual webcam input trick people would use on sites like Omegle. It's the ability to respond to the request to raise her hand that would suggest something more advanced, like face-swapping.