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Paste a job description below. You'll get an instant verdict on whether it shows ghost-job or scam patterns — with every flag quoted from the posting itself — before you spend 45 minutes applying.
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What the checker looks for
Stale & reposted listings
Flags postings that read as evergreen or have been open far longer than a real hire would take.
Scam signals
Catches requests for money or personal documents, off-platform contact, and other classic fraud patterns.
Vague or padded descriptions
Surfaces missing salary, no real team or manager, and buzzword-heavy roles with no specifics.
Green flags too
Tells you what looks legitimate, not just what's wrong — so you can apply with confidence when it checks out.
Ghost job or scam — know the difference
A ghost job is a real company's listing with no active intent to hire — it wastes your time. A scam is criminal: it's after your money or identity. This checker flags both. Research suggests roughly 43% of postings may be ghost jobs (Resume Builder 2024, Clarify Capital, ZipRecruiter 2025), and the FTC reports consumers lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year to job scams.
Want the manual method too? Read how to verify a job posting in 5 minutes, the 12 scam red flags, and remote job scam warning signs.
Frequently asked questions
Is this ghost job checker really free?
Yes. Paste a job description and get an instant verdict with no signup. It runs the same fraud and ghost-job pattern analysis inteller.ai uses, with a per-day limit to prevent abuse.
How does it know if a job is a ghost or a scam?
A model reads the whole posting. A second, independent reader then looks at the same text without seeing the first one's conclusion and asks only what the posting makes you do — money you pay, money or goods passed through you, identity documents before an interview, applications routed off the employer's own site. Deterministic checks run alongside both and can only raise the alarm, never clear a posting. Every signal is shown with the exact phrase that triggered it. It reads the posting, not the employer's private intent, so treat a flag as a strong reason to verify, not a final verdict.
Is it accurate?
It's a pattern-matcher, not an oracle. A high-risk result is a strong reason to slow down and verify the posting independently; a clean result is permission to proceed carefully. No tool can read an employer's mind, so always confirm a role exists on the company's official careers page.
Do you store the job descriptions I paste?
The free checker analyzes the text and returns a result. Create a free account if you want your scans, resume fit, and history saved.
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