Before you reply, take a second look.
Paste a recruiter message or drop in a screenshot. SecondLook checks it against the patterns behind fake job offers — on your device — and tells you, in plain words, what's unusual for your hiring stage.
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Fake job offers are one of the fraud types the FTC receives the most reports about, and the messages are getting harder to tell apart from the real thing. Most scam apps run your message on their servers and hand back a mystery number. SecondLook does the opposite.
Text you paste and screenshots you import are read entirely on your iPhone with Apple's Vision framework. No account, no sign-in, no analytics SDK.
Every flag says exactly what was found, why it's unusual, and what to do next. No black-box "scam score" to trust blindly.
An SSN request is routine onboarding paperwork — but alarming at first contact. SecondLook scores the same ask differently depending on where you are.
Domains in the message are compared on-device to a bundled list of real careers and applicant-tracking sites, and checked for lookalikes like amaz0n-hiring.com. SecondLook never opens the links.
When a message name-drops a well-known employer, SecondLook compares its links to that company's real careers site — from a bundled, offline list. If the message says one company but its links point somewhere unrelated, you'll see it, along with the address to type in yourself.
Before any snippet is shown back to you — or sent on the optional Deep AI Check — SecondLook removes SSNs, card and bank numbers, and dates of birth, on your device.
Forward the flags to a friend on a card that carries no message text — or send them a copy of the message itself with your personal numbers taken out first.
"Spot the scam" runs quick rounds of real-looking job messages — legit, or not? — and a browsable guide explains every pattern SecondLook checks for.
Check from the share sheet in Mail or Messages, from a Control Center button, from the Home Screen widget, or with the "Is this a scam?" Shortcut — the answer comes back without leaving the app you're in.
Ten seconds, before you send money, documents, or personal numbers.
Bring the message in. Paste text, import a screenshot, use the share sheet from Mail or Messages, tap the Control Center button, or run the "Is this a scam?" Shortcut.
Pick your hiring stage — first contact, interviewing, offer, or onboarding — or leave it as "not sure."
Read the report. An overall read plus an itemized list of what's unusual, each with a plain-language reason and a next step — and, on a strong flag, a one-tap way to report it to the FTC.
Optionally, go deeper. "Deep AI Check" sends the screenshot and text to an AI model for a closer read — only when you tap it, after a one-time explanation.
Paste the message, read the report, and sharpen your own eye between checks.
SecondLook is the only job-scam checker that can honestly say all of this at once:
The paid incumbents can't match this — their analysis is the server call.
SecondLook flags patterns commonly seen in job scams. It cannot confirm that any message, company, or person is legitimate or fraudulent, and a clean result is not a guarantee. When money, documents, or personal numbers are involved, verify the employer independently. To report a job scam in the U.S., visit reportfraud.ftc.gov — SecondLook can hand you a ready-to-paste summary with your personal details removed.
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