Job scams cost Americans $501M in 2024, up from $90M in 2020; and the convincing ones now look like real offers. Existing tools can scan for obvious red flags, but Real Job Check runs checks a careful person would actually do: domain age, email authentication, whether the same role is listed on the company's real careers board (i.e. Workday), and pay realism. If it looks real, it routes you to the company's own application page. If it looks like a scam, it hands you a ready-to-file report.
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How Real Job Check started:
-Job scams cost Americans $501M in 2024, up from $90M in 2020. That isn't bad luck, that's a crisis
-Scams stopped looking like scams and more like a friendly recruiter on LinkedIn, a real-looking domain, reasonable pay, and professional offer letter
-Someone close to me almost fell for one. They're sharp, the scam was just that good
-I kept getting asked "is this job posting real?" by people who genuinely couldn't tell anymore
-Every tool I tried gave a score with no explanation. For something so high-stakes, that felt risky
What Real Job Check does:
-You paste a job posting, a link, or a recruiter message and get a verdict in about 10 seconds: Likely Legit, Caution, or High Risk
-It checks what a careful person would actually check: domain age, whether the recruiter's email matches the real company, whether the same role appears on the company's official careers page
-An AI layer reads language patterns on top of those hard checks, but it can't override them. A real job can't get falsely flagged by the model alone
-If it looks real: it routes you to the company's own application page so you don't apply through a sketchy link
-If it looks like a scam: it hands you a prefilled report kit for the FTC, IC3, and BBB - ready to file in one click
Why it's better than what exists:
-It shows its work. Every flag links to a fact you can verify yourself, no black-box score asking you to trust it
-The AI is clamped by design. Hard signals have to back any verdict; falsely accusing a real employer is its own kind of harm
-It doesn't just warn you, it tells you what to do next. Apply here, or report it there
-It checks the careers board directly. Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and not just whether a company website exists
-It's free with no signup, so there's no reason not to check before you apply or hand over any personal details
Who it is for:
-Anyone who just got a recruiter message that feels slightly off and wants a second opinion before responding
-New grads and first-time job seekers who haven't built up instincts for what a real offer looks like
-Remote job seekers, who are targeted at a much higher rate because the whole process happens online anyway
-Literally anyone actively job hunting right now
If you know someone in a job search, this is worth sending them before they apply to their next job posting.