CareerShield helps job seekers check suspicious job posts, recruiter messages, and offers before sharing personal or financial information.
The opportunity looked polished at first glance, but the recruiter used a mismatched domain and asked the applicant to move to Telegram before a formal interview.
Domain, message patterns, careers-page signals, and process shape.
Pressure language, chat-only interview, and weak company verification.
Pause the process, verify the recruiter, and avoid sending identity or bank details.
Submit only a job URL or combine the posting, recruiter email, outreach text, offer language, links, and notes into one scan.
See the risk score, triggered rules, what was verified, and what still needs independent confirmation.
Get calm, practical guidance on what to verify next and what not to send yet.
Fake listings, impersonation, text-only interviews, fake onboarding, and equipment-purchase scams are designed to catch applicants while they are hopeful and under time pressure. CareerShield helps slow the process down and make risk visible before personal information is shared.
"CareerShield helped me pause before sending onboarding documents to a recruiter I later learned was impersonating a real company."
"The report gave me exactly what to verify next instead of just calling the job fake."
Free now includes 15 monthly searches. Member includes 50 monthly searches and everything except PDF report export. Pro includes 600 monthly searches and the full feature set. New users get 50% off their first paid month.
Compare plansCareerShield helps job seekers slow down, review the evidence, and avoid sharing sensitive information too early. Start with 15 free monthly searches or unlock a discounted first paid month.