How to verify a remote candidate's identity at each stage
Identity checks for remote hiring before, during and after the interview, using what the FBI recommends and what real cases show.
Hiring guides6 min read
News
Interview fraud, remote hiring and how to keep an interview honest.
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Interview questions AI answers badly, with examples
Five kinds of question that a candidate reading from an assistant app handles poorly, with samples for non-technical roles and the reason each works.
Hiring guides5 min read
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North Korean IT workers in remote jobs: the documented cases
What US court records and FBI notices show about DPRK operatives hired under stolen names, and the steps the FBI asks hiring teams to take.
Interview fraud5 min read
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Proxy interviews: how they work, the signs and what to do
When someone else answers for the candidate, or the candidate answers and someone else does the job: how it is arranged, how to spot it and the checks.
Interview fraud5 min read
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What SecureInterview does in an interview, start to end
How your room opens, how the candidate joins, what the call has, and what is kept when it ends. One video interview, step by step.
Product3 min read
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How to stop AI use in interviews: a recruiter's guide
What to do before, during and after a remote interview to keep AI assistants out of it, with a sample AI policy you can send to candidates.
Hiring guides5 min read
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AI interview fraud: how it grew and where it stands
Apps now hear the interview and answer in real time. How common that is, who the fake candidates are and how employers respond.
Interview fraud3 min read
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AI cheating in interviews: the 2026 statistics
The published figures on candidates using AI in job interviews, each with its source: how many do it, what interviewers notice and how employers respond.
Interview fraud3 min read
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How an AI interview assistant works during a call
These apps hear the question, read the screen and show the candidate an answer the interviewer cannot see. Each step, and where the apps are weak.
Interview fraud2 min read
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How to tell a candidate is using AI in an interview
Pauses before easy answers, eyes that read, replies that fail a follow-up: what interviewers notice when a candidate has AI help, and what to do next.
Hiring guides2 min read
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Deepfake candidates: fake faces and identities in hiring
What the FBI and the US Justice Department have reported about faked faces, voices and stolen identities in job interviews since 2022, and the checks that help.
Interview fraud2 min read
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Stopping AI in live coding interviews
The ways candidates get AI to write code during a technical interview, and the problems, questions and checks that make it harder.
Hiring guides3 min read
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Are in-person interviews the answer to AI?
Google and McKinsey have added in-person rounds. What an in-person round costs you, and what a remote interview needs instead.
Hiring guides2 min read
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Questions that stop AI use during an interview
Follow-up questions that an AI assistant handles badly, with examples for engineering, sales, support and product roles.
Hiring guides3 min read
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What is Cluely? What recruiters should know
The AI app first sold for cheating in job interviews: how it works, how it has changed since 2025, and what interviewers can do about it.
Interview fraud3 min read
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What the BBC found: everyone's using AI to get hired
A September 2026 BBC News video looked at how job seekers and employers both use AI in hiring. What it showed, and what it means for interviews.
Hiring guides3 min read
