Questions, answered plainly

Everything you were given: the job title, the pay, the full description, and any messages the employer has already sent you. A few sentences is the minimum; up to about 20,000 characters is accepted.

The more real context you include, the better the report. A title and salary alone give the checker very little to work with.

An AI model reads the listing line by line against the patterns documented in real job scams by consumer-protection and law-enforcement agencies — upfront fees, fake cheques and equipment payments, reshipping parcels, moving money between accounts, paid “task” work, recruiter impersonation, requests for ID or bank details, pressure to decide now, pay that has no obvious reason to be that high, and companies you cannot identify.

It also weighs what a real employer would have included but didn't: a named company, a verifiable website, a real interview process, clear duties, and a clear pay rate.

Usually 15 to 40 seconds. The model reads the whole listing and writes the report, so it isn't instant. Keep the page open until the report appears.

Yes. Paste the advert and the conversation together, in the order you received them. Much of what gives a scam away happens in the messages — the request to move to WhatsApp or Telegram, the sudden cheque for equipment, the link to a “payroll portal”.

No, and you should distrust any tool that claims otherwise. A clean report means we found nothing worrying in the text you gave us — it is not a guarantee. Scammers reuse genuine company names, so still verify the employer independently before you send documents, bank details, or money.

A report with seven parts: a plain-English verdict, a risk score out of 100 with a breakdown of how many high, medium and low warning signs were found, the suspicious wording quoted straight from your listing with an explanation of why each line is worrying, the red flags ranked by severity and tagged with the scam type they match, the details a real employer would have included but didn't, a numbered list of questions to send the employer, and a final section explaining what it all means.

“Likely a scam” — the strongest warning signs are present, such as being asked for money, a cheque to deposit, or bank logins to get paid.

“Suspicious — be careful” — real warning signs are there but not the decisive ones. Verify before you go further.

“Not enough to tell” — the listing is too thin or too vague to judge, which is itself common in scam adverts.

“Looks probably genuine” — nothing worrying stood out, but you still verify the employer independently.

It runs from 0 to 100 and reflects the warning signs found in your listing, with the high-severity ones pulling it up hardest. The report shows how many signs fell into each severity band so you can see what is driving the number. Treat the score as a reading aid, not a certainty — one high-severity flag, such as being asked to pay a fee, matters more than the number itself.

Every red flag is tagged with the scam pattern it matches, and the report then links the official guidance for those patterns — from the FTC, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Better Business Bureau — plus where to report a scam once you have lost money or sent your details.

If you are signed in, every check is saved and gets its own page you can return to, print or save as a PDF, and delete whenever you like. Only you can see your reports. The free check you can run without an account is not saved.

You pay $4.99 once and five checks are added to your account. There is no subscription and nothing renews. From then on, each check you run while signed in uses one of the five automatically — you don't choose which check to spend, and you don't enter card details again.

No. Unused checks stay in your account until you use them, so you can spend two this week and three next month.

Yes. While an unlimited subscription is active, your checks don't touch the pack — the five checks sit there and get used only after the subscription ends.

Checkout is handled by Paddle, our payment provider. When it finishes you come back to the site, and your new allowance shows at the top of the checker within about a minute. If a check fails part-way through, you aren't charged for it.

One full check with no account and no card, on each device or browser. There is also a small daily limit per network so the free check can't be used up by automated traffic — if you hit it, creating a free account lifts it.

With a free account you also get a saved report and can add a 5-check pack or an unlimited plan whenever you want.

The checker tells you and points to the plans. Your saved reports and your account stay exactly as they are — you just add a pack or a subscription to keep checking.

Yes — 30 days, no lengthy explanation needed. Paddle is the merchant of record and handles refunds and billing questions for us.

The free check you run without an account is not stored — the report appears and that's the end of it. When you are signed in, the listing and its report are saved to your account so you can reopen them later. Only you can see them, and you can delete any report.

No. Your listings are processed to produce your report and are not sold or shared with employers, recruiters, or advertisers.

No. It is guidance to help you ask better questions before you hand anything over. If you have already paid a scammer or sent identity documents, report it to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI at ic3.gov, and contact your bank.