About

If you've ever stared at a job listing wondering if it's real, you already know the problem this tool is trying to solve.

Job scams are one of the most demoralizing things that can happen to someone who's genuinely trying to get ahead. You spend an hour tailoring your application. You get excited. You start imagining the future. And then -- weeks later, or sometimes after you've paid a 'processing fee' you couldn't afford -- you find out it was never real. I’ve worked with young people in many different countries and I understand that they face many obstacles on their path to finding and succeeding at work. I am working to remove as many of those as possible.

Who I Am

My name is Todd Jensen. I've spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of technology, digital employment, and economic opportunity -- often in markets where those things are hardest to access.

Let me tell you a little about my work history:

I was on the World Bank team in Pakistan working to build a digital jobs strategy for Northern Pakistan -- training thousands of young people in BPO and digital work, helping establish work centers, and working directly with government officials to change the policies that were keeping international work out. That work resulted in over 1,000 new digital income jobs and more than 8,500 young people participating in employment training. I also trained and managed young workers directly in Peshawar, which means I didn't just design programs -- I sat in the rooms where people were learning these skills and trying to figure out what came next.

I also spent a time finding and managing in-country partnerships for Digital Divide Data across Sub-Saharan Africa -- Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, DRC, South Africa. We trained and paid hundreds of young people to use technology to collect and validate data in conditions that were genuinely difficult. I watched many of those workers show up, learn fast, and do excellent work. Through many site visits and team communications, I saw firsthand how challenging it was to find work.

Before all of this, I spent several years running global digital operations at Ancestry.com -- managing a $40 million budget, 300+ direct employees, 5,000+ indirect workers, and a supply chain of BPO partners across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, the Philippines, Kenya, Mexico, and other countries. I logged a lot of air miles evaluating potential partners and putting the best ones to work. I know how these operations work from the inside. I know what a real employer in this space looks like, and I know what the fake or exploitative ones look like too.

That background is what's underneath this tool. Not an algorithm that someone built from a dataset. A set of eyes that has been in these markets, watched young people navigate them, and developed a clear sense of what's worth your time and what isn't.

Why I Built This

I also host a podcast called The World of Work -- it's built around the same audience and the same set of problems. The honest reality of finding and keeping good work. What companies actually look for. What gets people hired and what gets them passed over. What the job market in developing economies actually looks like from the inside.

This tool came out of that same impulse -- a desire to remove obstacles for the people I know and respect in these countries. I couldn’t find a free, focused, honest job scam checker built for this audience. So I built one. The AI behind it is trained on the patterns I’ve seen -- the too-good salaries, the vague company names, the upfront fee requests, the pressure to act fast, the job descriptions that don’t quite match any real role that exists. It’s not perfect. But it’s a second opinion you can get in 30 seconds, for free, before you invest your time.

Use it. Share it with someone who needs it. And if you want more of this kind of straight talk about work, come find the podcast -- available on all the major platforms.