Recruitment fraud centre
Verify before you trust a recruitment message.
Use this guidance to identify official communication and report suspicious job offers, payment requests or identity misuse.
Check the domain, contact details and written information before responding.
Verify communication
Check the details before you respond.
Check the spelling carefully. A familiar logo or profile image is not proof of identity.
Signs of suspicious behaviour
!Claims of assured outcomes from unverifiable accounts
!Pressure to pay an individual or act immediately
!Requests to send money through unofficial channels
!Job conditions that change without written explanation
!Requests for unnecessary identity documents
!Messages from look-alike domains or personal accounts
Report suspicious activity
Help us review a recruitment concern.
Preserve messages, payment instructions and account details. Do not send passport files unless the approved secure workflow requests them.