How this works
We check the words in the message against fixed rules for scam patterns that government advisories and companies have documented. No AI reads your message: fixed rules decide, and every warning shows you the words that triggered it.
No checker catches every scam, and new tricks appear all the time. A clean result never means an offer is safe.
We say "Stop" only for what no honest employer does:
- asking for your OTP, PIN, password or card details
- moving money through your bank account
- asking you to pay a person (a UPI ID, a phone number, a personal account) or to pay before you can join
- paying you for likes, reviews or "tasks"
- someone claiming to be police or an agency and keeping you on a call
- a website or email address imitating a known company
Everything else is a warning sign to check.
What we look for
- Asking you to pay: a registration, training, laptop or joining fee, a deposit, a UPI ID or a QR code.
- Asking for an OTP, UPI PIN, password or card details.
- Paying you to like videos, rate hotels or finish 'tasks'.
- Moving the conversation to Telegram or WhatsApp.
- A recruiter writing from a personal Gmail or Yahoo address, or a website that imitates a known company.
- A job with no interview, or an 'interview' only by chat.
- Pressure to act within minutes or hours.
- Aadhaar, PAN or bank details asked for before any interview.
- High pay per day for part-time or work-from-home jobs with no clear role.
- A 'guaranteed' job or placement for a fee.
What we cannot do
- We cannot confirm that a company, recruiter or job is real.
- A message with no warning signs can still be a scam.
- We never call a named company a scam. We point out patterns in a message.
- When in doubt, find the company's official careers website on your own and check the job there.
If you have lost money
Call 1930 or report at cybercrime.gov.in straight away. To report a fraud call, SMS or WhatsApp message, use Chakshu on Sanchar Saathi.
Part of our promise: free tools that tell you the truth.