A practical verification pass for company identity, recruiter domains, location eligibility and suspicious requests.
Adapt the process to your profession and location. Frupy provides informational guidance, not legal, financial, tax or employment advice.
01 · Find the employer independently
Type or search the company domain yourself instead of trusting only a link in a message. Look for a current product, identifiable team, contact path and careers section. Search for the exact title and compare wording.
Put the decision in a simple tracker before opening another source. A written constraint prevents an attractive but impossible role from consuming attention twice.
02 · Match the recruiting identity
Check that recruiter names, email domains and the documented hiring process align. Look-alike domains, messaging-only interviews and sudden pressure deserve a stop, not a faster response.
Treat every platform label as a prompt to inspect the specific vacancy. Only current employer terms define the job, eligible location and application process.
03 · Read remote literally
Confirm eligible countries or states, time-zone overlap, travel expectations and whether the arrangement is employment, employer-of-record employment or independent contracting.
Put the decision in a simple tracker before opening another source. A written constraint prevents an attractive but impossible role from consuming attention twice.
04 · Protect money and devices
Do not pay to receive an offer, deposit checks, transfer cryptocurrency, purchase equipment from a designated vendor or install unknown remote-access tools. Share financial and identity data only through verified onboarding after a real offer.
Treat every platform label as a prompt to inspect the specific vacancy. Only current employer terms define the job, eligible location and application process.
05 · Keep a record
Save the original listing, employer URL and written terms. Report suspicious activity to the board and the impersonated company through channels you located independently.
Put the decision in a simple tracker before opening another source. A written constraint prevents an attractive but impossible role from consuming attention twice.
Keep the system lighter than the search
Review the process after two weeks. Remove fields, alerts and boards that do not change decisions. Preserve the few checks that prevent expensive mistakes: verified employer identity, current vacancy, exact hiring location, worker classification, compensation and next action.
Public social reviews can identify a useful question, but anonymous identities and hiring outcomes are rarely independently verifiable. A repeated Reddit, Instagram or Facebook theme should lead to a product check or direct question, not an unsupported success or failure statistic.