Recruiting Identity Fraud
How to tell if a candidate is faking their location
Location is mostly self-reported in hiring. Five checks your team can run on remote candidates, four of them straight from the FBI, and where checking by hand stops working.
What to do the moment you suspect a deepfake in an interview
The checks that break a face-swap work, and asking a real candidate to do them is awkward. What to do in the moment, what to write down, and where detection software saves everyone the weirdness.
Being a great background check company doesn't make you a great fraud detection company
Background check companies are now selling fraud detection. They have the distribution. Here's why they don't start with more information on your applicants than anyone else.
A Day in the Life of a North Korean IT Worker
Inside the daily life of a North Korean IT worker: the training pipeline, multiple identities, monthly quotas, laptop farms, and what it means for hiring.
Why Deepfake Detection for Hiring Needs Multiple Signals
Deepfake candidates can slip past a single detection check. See why catching them in hiring takes multiple independent signals, with real scores from Tofu.
Scammers Are Stealing Recruiter Identities, and It's Connected to Candidate Fraud
Cloned recruiter profiles, deepfake candidates, and a hiring system built on unverified identity. Inside the two-sided fraud problem reshaping recruiting.
What Hiring Fraud Actually Does To Your Company
Hiring fraud costs companies far more than a bad hire — it drains recruiter time, erodes hiring manager trust, slows pipelines, and pushes away real talent.
IT Worker Fraud Has an Identity Problem
Fraudsters are stealing real professional identities to pass interviews. Our analysis of 67,000 IT worker fraud cases shows how it works and what to watch for.