Someone offered you a job or a rental. Check them first.

Fake job offers and fake rentals work the same way: everything looks normal until the first real ask is money or documents. We check the company, the agency, or the property against public records, and the person only in the role they claimed there.

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Deal Check

$149

For the person who was approached.

The company, the agency, or the property, checked against public records.
The person you dealt with, checked in the role they claimed there.
Public sanctions and regulator lists included.
Every finding marked with how sure we are.
Within 48 hours, run and read by a person.

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We only sell this in one direction

A candidate can check an employer. A tenant can check a landlord.

We do not sell it the other way. An employer checking a candidate, or a landlord checking a tenant, is a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act. We are not a consumer reporting agency and we are not going to become one, so we refuse those orders however they are worded.

This product exists so the person being screened can look back at whoever is screening them.

What a check can actually tell you

The honest version, because a list of everything we cover would be a lie and you can find that lie anywhere.

Whether the company or agency exists, and how long it has existedChecked
Whether the domain and the contact details match the companyChecked
Whether the person held the role they claimed thereChecked
Whether the letting agency exists, and whether the listing is reposted elsewhere under another nameChecked
Whether the name appears on public sanctions and regulator listsChecked
Private accounts, direct messages, and closed groupsNot checked
Whether a photograph is generated, edited, or stolenNot checked
Anything a court or a bank can see and the public cannotNot checked

The checks we refuse

An employer, recruiter, or agency asking about a candidate or an employee. A landlord, agent, or property manager asking about a tenant or an applicant. This is the firmest line on the page.
Any other decision covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as credit or insurance.
A partner, a former partner, a family member, or someone you live with or used to live with.
Anyone under 18.
Anyone you have a court order, a restraining order, or a no-contact request with.
Anything whose real question is someone’s health, religion, politics, or sexuality.
Curiosity. If you cannot name a specific job offer or a specific tenancy, there is no reason, and the order form has no box to type one into.

A person reads every order before any work starts. If it is one of these, it is cancelled and deleted, and nothing is charged.

What this is, and what it is not

This check is new. We have run it a handful of times, we take a few each week, and each one is put together by a person rather than a machine. That is why it takes up to 48 hours and why the number is small.

Public sources only: company records, search results, indexed pages, public profiles, listings, and public sanctions and regulator lists. We do not sign in to anything, we do not go behind a paywall, and we cannot see anything a court or a bank can see and the public cannot.

We do not detect deepfakes and we will not pretend to. What we can tell you is whether there is a real, dated, public record behind the company and the role. An invented one usually has almost no record. That is a strong signal. It is not proof, and your report says which of the two you are looking at.

The company or landlord must be in the United States. If we cannot verify that the company or the property exists, the report says so, and that is the answer you get.

Anyone who promises to spot every fraud is lying to you.

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Nothing is charged here. We read every order first and reply within one business day, either with a payment link or with the reason we are not running it.

Where we reply.

The name of the company or agency, or the full address of the property.

A link is what we check against. If you only have an email, paste the sender’s address.

For example, hiring manager at that company, or the letting agent.

One line. Please leave out health, religious, and criminal details, and anything from a private message.

I am the person being approached, not the one doing the hiring or the letting, and none of the refused reasons on this page apply to my request.

I am 18 or older, the company or landlord is in the United States, and I agree to the privacy policy.

No-questions refund. Nothing is charged until you get a payment link.

Short questions

Is this a background check?

No, and it may not be used as one. This is not a consumer report and we are not a consumer reporting agency. We sell it only to the person being screened, never to an employer checking a candidate or a landlord checking a tenant, and we refuse those orders however they are worded.

Where does the information come from?

Public sources only. Company records, search results, indexed pages, public profiles, listings, and public sanctions and regulator lists. We do not scrape, we do not sign in to anything, we do not go behind a paywall, and we never try to get around a site telling us to stay out.

What if the company checks out and it still turns out to be a scam?

Then the check did what it could and it was not enough, and we would rather say that here than let you read this page thinking otherwise. A real record makes a real company more likely, not certain. Your report marks how sure we are about each finding, and the ones we could not settle are marked as unsettled rather than quietly dropped.

What do you keep afterwards?

Almost nothing. The check runs in an isolated workspace that is erased when the report is finished, so the findings are never stored. We keep the report we sent you, your order, and a short note of the company or property checked and the situation given. That note is deleted after 30 days, and it exists so we can answer the company or landlord who was checked if they ask us what happened.