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Hiring Fraud Cost Calculator

Calculate your annual exposure from application fraud and OFAC risk

Application Volume

Engineering Applications

Total Annual Exposure

Time savings + OFAC risk combined

$1.03M

Fraud Profile

% Remote Engineering Roles80%
Remote Eng Fraud Rate56%

Industry benchmark: 30–60% for remote engineering roles

Your Fraud Funnel

Total Applications200,000
→ Engineering Apps132,000
→ Remote Eng Apps105,600
Fraudulent Applications59,136

Time Savings

Wasted interview time prevented

$195K

per year

2,957

Fraud Interviews Prevented

1,479

Recruiter Hours

1,183

HM Hours

OFAC Risk Exposure

Regulatory sanctions liability

$833K

expected / year

Single Incident Cost

$4.64M

One hit fine = 13 violations × $356,579 penalty

1.20

Expected Hit Hires/Year

$5.55M

Gross Exposure (pre-probability)

OFAC Model Assumptions

% OFAC-Relevant Fraud5%
Fraudster Pass Rate30%/round
Detection Lag6 months
P(Enforcement)15%
OFAC Penalty/Violation$356,579
Pay Periods/Year26 (bi-weekly)

Based on BIS enforcement data and OFAC penalty guidelines. Per-violation penalties for sanctions evasion via unlicensed hiring of sanctioned individuals or entities.

OFAC operates on strict liability — you don't need to know you hired a sanctioned worker to be liable. Tofu provides documented screening to mitigate your exposure.

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