Candidate Identity Verification and Impersonation Prevention

Verify candidate identity at the start of your assessment and continuously throughout. Catch impersonators and ID mismatches automatically so you only hire who you think you're hiring.

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How Identity Verification Stops Candidate Fraud

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Verify Identity Before the Assessment Begins

Candidates upload a government ID and take a live selfie before starting. Our AI instantly compares the photo on their ID to their live selfie and checks that the name matches their application.

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Catch Impersonators

We randomly capture photos throughout the assessment at unpredictable intervals and compare every shot to the original verification photo. If a different face appears, you get an alert with the evidence.

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Review Red Flags in Seconds

Flagged attempts appear in your dashboard with side-by-side photo comparisons, timestamps, and clear indicators of what went wrong. The whole review process takes about 20 seconds per flag.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Government IDs, passports, driver's licenses, national identity cards, student IDs with photos, and other official identification documents from any country. As long as it has a photo and the candidate's full name, we can verify it.

Unlimited retakes before submission. They get 5 verification attempts after submitting. If they still can't pass after 5 tries, they can proceed to the assessment, but it gets flagged for your manual review.

Roughly once per minute, but at completely random intervals. Candidates never know when the next photo is coming, which prevents strategic switching.

You'll see an automatic alert in your dashboard with the photo that triggered it. You can review the evidence and decide whether to invalidate the assessment or investigate further.

Yes, it works on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Taking a photo of an ID card works best on mobile. For desktop users, we recommend uploading an existing photo file for better quality.

They can still take the assessment, but expired IDs automatically get flagged in your dashboard so you can review and make the call based on your company's policies.

Absolutely. ID verification and impersonation detection work seamlessly with all other proctoring features such as noise detection, tab switch, session recording etc.

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Last updated: October 05, 2025