Fake recruiter checker
Is this recruiter real?
Paste a recruiter's name, company, or LinkedIn URL. Get a verdict before you reply.
Three steps. About a minute.
1
Paste what you have
Recruiter name, employer, or LinkedIn URL — anything is enough to start.
2
We cross-reference
Company registration, hiring patterns, profile age, network density, known-scam fingerprints.
3
Verdict in seconds
Color-coded confidence, list of flags, and what the safe next step is.
What makes a recruiter look fake
We weight these against legitimate signals before scoring. One yellow flag isn't a verdict; clustered red flags are.
Free email instead of company domain
Real recruiters at real firms send from the firm's domain. Gmail / Yahoo / Outlook addresses for senior recruiter roles are unusual.
Brand-new or thin profile
Profile created in the last 60 days with under 50 connections, no endorsements, no shared employees.
Wire-first, interview-later
Pushes equipment fees, training fees, or 'verify your bank' before any meaningful interview happens.
Company that doesn't exist where they say
Registered nowhere we can find, or registered in a jurisdiction that doesn't match the claimed HQ.
Role description mirrored from a real posting
Job-description text matches a real listing at a different company word-for-word.
Off-platform within the first message
Pushes to Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal before establishing legitimacy on the original platform.
Quick FAQ
No. We never contact the person or company you investigate.
Yes. Paste the profile URL or the recruiter's name plus the company they claim to work at.
Paste the email or the domain. We pull WHOIS, age, and any associated company registration.
Yes — five investigations per month on the free plan. No credit card.
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