Check whether a recruiter or job offer is real — before you reply.
---
You get a message: *"We loved your profile and want to offer you a great remote job."*
It sounds real. The company has a logo. The recruiter has a photo. But something feels off.
**JobVerify helps you find out — in seconds — whether it's genuine or a scam.**
You paste the recruiter's message (or a company name, a link, or an email) and ask your AI assistant.
JobVerify quietly runs the same background checks a professional investigator would, then gives you a
plain-English answer: **looks legit**, **be careful**, or **this is almost certainly a scam** — and *why*.
---
## ❌ Without JobVerify
Fake recruiter and job-offer scams are everywhere, and they're convincing. On your own, you're left guessing:
- ❌ Is this company real, or a name someone invented last week?
- ❌ Is this "recruiter" a real person, or a stolen photo and a throwaway account?
- ❌ Is that application link safe, or a look-alike site built to steal your data?
- ❌ Why are they asking me to pay for equipment, or move the chat to WhatsApp/Telegram?
By the time you notice, your time, your personal details — or your money — may already be gone.
## ✅ With JobVerify
JobVerify cross-checks the offer against dozens of **free, public information sources** and combines the
clues into one clear verdict:
- ✅ Tells you if the company is a **registered, real business** — or nowhere to be found
- ✅ Spots **classic scam scripts** (upfront fees, fake "task" jobs, crypto, "let's move off-platform")
- ✅ Flags **suspicious links, look-alike domains, and brand-new websites** made to look official
- ✅ Checks whether the **email, phone, and photos** actually belong to who they claim
- ✅ Explains its reasoning in **everyday language**, so you can decide with confidence
No account, no sign-up, and none of your data is sold or stored. It simply helps you not get fooled.
---
## 🕵️ How it works
You don't need to learn anything technical. It's a three-step conversation:
1. **Paste it.** Drop the recruiter's message, a company name, a job link, or an email into your AI chat.
2. **It investigates.** JobVerify pulls out every detail — the company, links, email, phone, wallet
addresses — and quietly checks each one against public records, scam databases, and website history.
3. **You get a verdict.** A short, honest summary: how risky it looks, which signals are reassuring,
which are red flags, and what to do next.
> [!NOTE]
> JobVerify **never logs into or scrapes LinkedIn**. It only looks at information that is already
> public, and reads website history through the **Internet Archive** — the safe, legal way to check
> how long a profile or company page has *really* existed (scammers rely on brand-new throwaway accounts).
---
## 🔎 What it looks at
Think of it as a checklist a careful friend — who happens to be a fraud investigator — would run for you:
| Area | The question it answers |
|------|-------------------------|
| **The message** | Does this match known scam playbooks (advance fees, fake tasks, crypto, urgency)? |
| **The company** | Is it a real, registered business? Any recent scam reports? Is the office address real? |
| **The person** | Is the email real and deliverable? Is the phone valid? Are the photos/usernames reused elsewhere? |
| **The links** | Is the domain brand-new? A look-alike of a real brand? On any phishing/malware blocklist? |
| **The money** | Is the crypto wallet they gave you already flagged in scam databases? |
| **The history** | How long has this profile or website *actually* been online? |
---
## 💬 Example
Ask your assistant something as simple as:
```txt
Is this recruiter legit?
"Hi! I'm a talent partner at Example Corp. We loved your profile and
want to offer you a remote role at $45/hr. To get started, please purchase
$200 of onboarding equipment through this link — you'll be fully reimbursed
on day one. Let's continue on Telegram: @examplecorp_hr"
```
JobVerify will pick out **Example Corp**, the **link**, and the **Telegram hand-off**, check each
one, and reply with something like: *"⚠️ High risk — the company has no public registration, the link
was registered 4 days ago, and asking you to pay upfront and move to Telegram are textbook scam signals."*
---
## 🚀 Getting started
**No cloning. No virtualenv. No manual install.** JobVerify runs **straight from GitHub** — you only
paste a few lines into your AI assistant's config, and it fetches and launches itself on demand.
> [!NOTE]
> The only thing you need once is [**uv**](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) — a tiny, free helper that runs
> the tool for you:
> - **macOS / Linux:** `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`
> - **Windows:** `powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"`
### Claude Desktop
Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"jobverify": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["jobverify-mcp"]
}
}
}
```
### Claude Code
One line in your terminal:
```bash
claude mcp add jobverify -- uvx jobverify-mcp
```
> The first run takes a few seconds while it downloads the tool; after that it's instant.
### Use it
Paste a suspicious message and ask *"Is this offer legit?"* — or run the built-in **`analyze`** prompt.
That's it.
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## 🔐 Privacy & honesty
- **Your data stays yours.** No sign-up, no tracking, nothing you paste is stored or sold.
- **No API keys or costs.** Every source is free and open — public business registries, DNS records,
scam blocklists, the Internet Archive, and more.
- **Signals, not certainty.** JobVerify gives you strong decision support, not a courtroom verdict.
Treat the result as informed guidance about a *message* — never as a final judgment about a real person.
---
For the curious: the full toolbox
Under the hood, the AI assistant orchestrates these individual checks (all free, no keys):
| Tool | What it checks |
|------|----------------|
| `extract_entities` | Pulls emails, links, phones, wallets, and profile URLs out of a message |
| `check_scam_patterns` | Matches text against known scam tactics |
| `check_email` / `check_email_footprint` | Email deliverability + linked social accounts |
| `check_domain` / `check_domain_auth` | Domain age, registrar, and whether it can be spoofed |
| `check_typosquatting` / `find_lookalike_domains` | Look-alike / imposter domains |
| `check_url` / `check_ip` | Phishing & malware blocklists |
| `check_certificate_transparency` | A site's certificate & subdomain history |
| `parse_email_headers` | Origin, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and mismatches in raw email headers |
| `check_phone` | Phone number validity and region |
| `check_crypto_address` | Known-scam crypto wallet databases |
| `verify_company` / `search_company_news` / `verify_address` | Business registration, press, and real address |
| `check_github_org` / `check_username` | Whether an org/username really exists and how old it is |
| `check_wayback` / `fetch_archived_page` | Internet Archive history & content (the legal way to read a page) |
There's also a single **`analyze`** prompt that runs the whole extract → check → verdict flow for you.
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## ⚠️ Disclaimer
JobVerify is a decision-support tool. Its signals are probabilistic and may be incomplete or wrong.
Always use your own judgment, and never treat a result as a definitive statement about any individual
or organization.
## License
MIT — use it, share it, and help people stay safe.