Note: Fraud detection is designed to highlight unusual signals, not to make automated eligibility decisions. Final hiring decisions remain fully with your team.
For accounts with Fraud Detection enabled, Endorsed scans every applicant for suspicious signals and surfaces warning signs.
Here is an overview of the current signals Endorsed tracks:
🛜 Current Fraud Signals:
Broken LinkedIn link - The candidate's provided LinkedIn profile link is broken, public profile is set to private, or has potentially been moved. While this is not necessarily alone a sign of fraud, fraudulent applications may often have an invalid profile URL.
Low connection count - The candidate's LinkedIn profile has a low number of connections, which is generally rare for a real profile. This suggests their application may have been fraudulently created specifically for this application submission.
Missing public profile picture - The candidate's LinkedIn profile does not have a public profile picture. While this is not necessarily alone a sign of fraud or could be due to privacy settings, fraudulent applications generally refrain from including a profile picture.
Recently created LinkedIn profile - The candidate's LinkedIn profile was created very recently, which is generally rare for a real profile. This suggests their application may have been fraudulently created specifically for this application submission.
You can see these signals located directly on the candidate cards. If there are no signals listed, that means the candidate passed all of our checks.
Finally, if you notice a candidate passed all of the checks and you still believe they are fraudulent, please click "Report" -> "Fraudulent Candidate". This helps us track them and ensure that our subsequent fraud detection upgrades catch similar fraudulent candidates in the future.
