Fraud Exposure Calculator
Candidate Fraud Is Already In Your
Pipeline. See It In Dollars.
From fake applications to deepfaked interviews to sanctioned workers on your payroll — estimate your annual exposure across wasted interview time, bad hires, and OFAC strict-liability risk.
Total annual exposure
$556K
Wasted interview time + bad-hire cost + expected OFAC liability
High
Risk Level
Where fraud enters your pipeline
How fraudulent candidates flow from application to hire.
Total applications
16,000
Remote / hybrid applications
11,200
Fraudulent applications
3,360
Fraudulent hires / yr
4.54
Wasted interview time
Live interviews consumed by candidates who were never real.
$15K per year
168
Fraud interviews conducted
84
Recruiter hours lost
67
Hiring manager hours lost
Fraudulent hire cost
Fraudulent candidates who pass every round and start work — salary paid, termination, backfill, and incident remediation.
$336K per year
4.54
Expected fraudulent hires / yr
$74K
Cost per fraudulent hire (40% of loaded salary + $22,000 remediation)
Day 1
Fraudulent hires gain systems, payroll, and data access the moment they start.
OFAC sanctions exposure
Regulatory liability from unknowingly paying sanctioned workers (e.g., DPRK IT-worker schemes).
$206K expected / year
$6.04M
Single-incident cost — 16 violations × $377,700
0.23
Expected sanctioned hires / yr
$1.37M
Gross exposure (pre-enforcement probability)
HireID closes the gap at the point of maximum risk - the live interview. Continuous identity verification from first screen through day one, detecting deepfakes, proxy swaps, and voice cloning in real time with 98%+ accuracy.
How we calculate this
Pipeline breakdown. Applications flow: total → remote/hybrid share → fraud rate. Reported fraud-signal rates for remote roles range from 20–60% depending on role type and market; Gartner projects 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028.
Interview waste. We assume ~5% of fraudulent applications reach a live interview, consuming 0.5 recruiter hours and 0.4 hiring-manager hours each, at your loaded rates.
Fraudulent hires. Fraudulent finalists pass at the fraudster pass rate per round across three rounds. Each fraudulent hire costs 40% of fully-loaded first-year salary (U.S. DOL bad-hire baseline) plus remediation uplift.
OFAC exposure. Modeled on strict-liability enforcement: each payroll payment to a sanctioned individual can be treated as a separate violation, priced at the inflation-adjusted IEEPA civil maximum. All assumptions are editable above and shown transparently.