How the checker decides
Some answers are serious on their own: paying a fee to get a job, depositing money to unlock tasks, sharing an OTP or UPI PIN, or letting money pass through your account. Any one of these means the offer is almost certainly fraud. Other answers are warning signs that matter more together, such as a Gmail address, an offer without an interview or pay that is far too high. We add those up into low, some or high risk.
A low score is not a guarantee. Fraudsters use real company names, logos and HR names. The safest check is to find the job yourself on the company’s own careers site and contact the company through details you found independently. Our employer checker shows the official careers site for every company we track and checks a recruiter’s email domain.
Common job scams in India
- Task and part-time scams: a WhatsApp or Telegram message offers money for liking videos or rating products. After a few small payments you are asked to “invest” to unlock bigger tasks, and the money disappears.
- Fee-based fake offers: an offer letter in a big company’s name, followed by a demand for a registration fee, refundable deposit, training fee or laptop charge.
- Fake HR and look-alike domains: emails from addresses like company-careers.in or a Gmail account using a real recruiter’s name.
- Money mules: “work from home” jobs that ask you to receive and transfer money, or to open accounts or SIM cards for someone else. This can get you into legal trouble.
Read more in our guide to spotting fake job offers.
Sources
- National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal
- Sanchar Saathi (Chakshu): report suspected fraud calls and messages
Figures last checked against these sources on 4 November 2026. This tool gives an estimate for planning, not tax, legal or financial advice.