Recruitment scam checklist
Verify the employer, recruiter and hiring process before sharing documents or paying anything.
Verify professional requests and opportunities
Check recruiters, invoices, vendors and authority claims using independent channels that do not depend on the message being genuine.
Work & professional trust guides for the decision in front of you
If you need to organise the evidence before choosing a guide, begin with the email authenticity checklist.
Handle an urgent request from an executive
Use a pre-agreed verification route when authority and urgency arrive together.
Verify a vendor bank-detail change
Treat payment-detail changes as a high-risk identity event, even inside a familiar thread.
Check access before sharing a work document
Choose recipients, permissions and expiry based on the document's sensitivity and purpose.
Verify a remote-access support request
Confirm the technician and scope before installing software or sharing a screen.
Check a conference or speaking invitation
Verify the organiser, event history, fees and audience before supplying biography or travel details.
How freelancers can verify a new client
Balance access to opportunity with clear scope, identity checks and staged payment.
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Recruitment scam checklist
Verify the employer, recruiter and hiring process before sharing documents or paying anything.
Use the pause, verify, decide checklist
Apply the pause, verify and decide method to the current situation.
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