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:
- Paste it. Drop the recruiter's message, a company name, a job link, or an email into your AI chat.
- 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.
- 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:
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 — 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:
{
"mcpServers": {
"jobverify": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["jobverify-mcp"]
}
}
}
Claude Code
One line in your terminal:
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.
🔐 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.
<details> <summary><b>For the curious: the full toolbox</b></summary> <br>
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.
⚠️ 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.