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Is this AI training offer real?
Paste the message, email, chat or link you got. We check every link and sender against the real addresses of 71 platforms and known impostors, compare the pay with what the work really pays, and tell you plainly what we see.
Signs of a scam
What gives a fake offer away
Any fee, kit or deposit
Real platforms pay you. A registration fee, a training kit, equipment to buy or a deposit to unlock tasks or withdraw pay is the clearest sign of a scam.
Pay in crypto
AI training platforms pay through services such as Stripe, PayPal, Deel or Wise. Crypto top-ups and USDT salaries belong to task scams.
Only on WhatsApp or Telegram
Some platforms do text people, but applications, interviews and contracts happen on their own site. A job that lives only in a chat is a warning.
ID or bank details first
Identity checks and payout details are collected inside the platform's own sign-up, through providers like Persona or Stripe, never in a message.
Pay that is too good
We measure what each kind of work pays from the open roles we list. A rate above anything real roles advertise, for little effort, is bait.
Pressure to act now
"Only 3 slots left" and "reply within 24 hours" are there to stop you checking. A real platform's application waits for you.
Fake interviews are a scam of their own. Real AI interviews run inside the platform's own site; if you want to rehearse one, our AI interview practice runs it in each platform's format.
The addresses we check against
Where real messages come from
Each platform's own sites, and the email addresses its help pages and our sourced review name. A link or sender that is not on this list is not proof of a scam, but it is not the platform either.
- AfterQuery
afterquery.com
Email: @afterquery.com (for example notifications@afterquery.com)
- Alignerr
alignerr.com
Email: support@alignerr.com
- Anyone AI
anyoneai.com · jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyone-ai
Email: @anyoneai.com
- Appen
appen.com · crowdgen.com · jobs.lever.co/appen
Email: @appen.com, @crowdgen.com
- Babel Audio
babel.audio
Email: support@babel.audio
- Braintrust
usebraintrust.com
- Claru
claru.ai
- DataAnnotation
dataannotation.tech
- Deccan AI (Soul AI)
deccanexperts.ai
Email: support@deccanexperts.ai
- Handshake AI
joinhandshake.com
Email: @joinhandshake.com
- Hashlist
hashlist.com
Email: team@hashlist.com
- Invisible
invisibletech.ai · meridial.ai · inv.tech
Email: help@meridial.ai
- Mercor
mercor.com
Email: @mercor.com (for example support@mercor.com)
- micro1
micro1.ai
Email: @micro1.ai, @micro1.io, @micro1.co
- Mindrift
mindrift.ai
Email: @mindrift.ai
- OpenTrain AI
opentrain.ai
Email: support@opentrain.ai
- Outlier (Scale AI)
outlier.ai
Email: onboarding@outlier.ai
- Perle Labs
perle.ai · perle.xyz
- Pila8
pila8.com
Email: support@pila8.com
- RealTrainAI
realtrainai.com
Email: support@realtrainai.com
- RemoExperts
rex.zone · remoexperts.com
Email: recruitment@rex.zone
- Respondent
respondent.io
- Sigma AI
sigma.ai
- Sovrano AI
sovrano.ai
Email: support@sovrano.ai, help@sovrano.ai, payroll@sovrano.ai
- SuperAnnotate (SME)
superannotate.com · sme.careers
Email: support@sme.careers
- Terac
terac.com
- TransPerfect DataForce
transperfect.com
- Turing
turing.com
Email: no-reply@turing.com, support@turing.com
- Welo Data
welodata.ai · jobs.lever.co/weloglobal
Email: @welodata.ai, @welocalize.com, @weloglobal.com, @hire.lever.co
- Wirestock
wirestock.io
Email: support@wirestock.io
- xAI (SpaceXAI)
x.ai · job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai
The checker also knows the own sites of the other 40 platforms we track. Every platform
Scam checker: questions
How can I tell if an AI training job offer is real?
Check where it sends you and what it asks. A real offer leads to the platform's own website, where you make an account and pass its assessment or AI interview; ID and payout details are collected there. If it asks you to pay anything, to move to WhatsApp or Telegram, or to send ID or bank details in a message, treat it as a scam. Paste it above and we check the links, the sender and the pay for you.
Is this Mercor email real?
Real Mercor email comes from @mercor.com (for example support@mercor.com), and accounts and payouts are set up only on its own site (mercor.com). Mercor says it never charges fees. Paste the email above, with the sender's address, to check it. Is Mercor legit?
Do AI training platforms charge a fee to join?
No. The platforms we track pay you for work and charge nothing to apply, interview or join. A fee, a training kit, equipment you must buy or a deposit to release your pay is the most common sign of a job scam.
Is it a scam if a recruiter contacts me on WhatsApp?
Not always: a few platforms, Turing among them, do message people on WhatsApp, and others text people who opted in. Handshake says it never uses WhatsApp. Whatever the channel, apply only on the platform's own website, and stop if anyone in a chat asks for money, crypto, ID or bank details.
What do you do with what I paste?
Nothing is stored. Your text is checked in memory, read once by an AI model to judge it, and dropped; we only count how many checks end in each verdict. Our privacy policy says so.
Where do I report a fake recruiter?
Report it to the platform it pretends to be, through that platform's own site, and to the account or app where it reached you. In the US you can also report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.