Candidates submit forged payslips, fake diplomas and altered employment letters to win offers they should not get. VerifyPDF flags manipulated documents in under 5 seconds, before they reach your employee files.
Of candidates use AI to generate fake work samples or portfolios (Greenhouse 2025 Workforce & Hiring Report)
Of hiring managers have caught or suspected AI-driven candidate misrepresentation (Greenhouse 2025 AI in Hiring Report)
Resume fraudsters landed a job in 2024 (Resume.org)
To verify a document vs hours of manual review per new hire
Modern document fraud is invisible to the human eye. Candidates use Adobe Acrobat Pro and AI tools to alter payslips, employment letters and diplomas so they look identical to genuine documents. Salary figures are inflated, dates are adjusted and the fonts still match because nothing structural changed.
A candidate downloads a genuine payslip, opens it in a PDF editor and raises the salary figure by 20 to 30% to justify a higher offer. The layout is identical and the embedded fonts match, so manual review never catches it.
University diplomas are a commodity product on template farms that replicate watermarks, formatting and institution-specific textures. Between 25 and 30% of education credentials listed on CVs contain an inaccuracy or fabrication.
Reference letters carry no structured data and no metadata patterns to reconcile, so they are the easiest to forge. A convincing letterhead and a corporate-sounding email address is all it takes.
Resume screening, interviews, offer negotiation, onboarding and beyond: fraud can enter your pipeline at every step, yet most checks happen only at onboarding when the offer is already signed. 47% of candidates admit to embellishing their qualifications. Here is how to build verification into every stage.
Read the HR verification guide
ID verification confirms who someone is, not whether their payslip, diploma or employment letter is genuine. One in six employers has already experienced identity fraud during hiring. Pairing ID checks with automated document forensics closes the blind spot.
Read why ID checks are not enoughIntegrate document verification into your applicant tracking system or onboarding portal. Every PDF is analyzed in under 5 seconds, with detailed forensic evidence when manipulation is detected.
Detect traces of PDF editors, creation timestamps that do not match the issuer and software signatures that reveal manipulation, so edits your recruiters cannot see are flagged before the offer is signed.
Identify direct text modifications, font inconsistencies and layered edits, catching the invisible changes a manual onboarding review will always miss.
Match documents against our database of known payslip and statement formats to confirm a document came from its claimed payroll provider, so a convincing forgery cannot pass as genuine.
Connect VerifyPDF to your ATS or HRIS via our REST API, or let AI recruiting agents verify documents with our open-source AI agent skill. Either way every document is checked automatically, with no extra steps for your HR team.
Payslips, diplomas, employment letters and tax forms are uploaded through your ATS or onboarding portal.
Every PDF is checked for manipulation, metadata inconsistencies and issuer verification in under 5 seconds.
Each document receives a Trusted, Low Risk, Needs Attention or High Risk rating with detailed evidence of any detected modifications.
Your team focuses on evaluating genuine candidates while flagged documents are routed for further review.
Upload a PDF. In under 5 seconds, VerifyPDF tells you if it's genuine or forged, with detailed evidence of every modification. Try it free for 15 days, no credit card needed.
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