Applications
Candidate Fraud Detection Overview & Admin Settings
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candidate fraud detection allows you to manually run fraud checks as well as automatically flag inbound job applications that contain potential fraud signals these fraud signals are identified based on specific criteria, and the applications are segmented for manual review, helping you to streamline the identification of potentially fraudulent applications this article explains how candidate fraud detection works and steps to configure it in your admin settings permissions & access candidate fraud detection is available across all plans true 148,148,148,141left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type left unhandled content type only those with organizational admin privileges can configure candidate fraud detection settings how it works when candidate fraud detection is enabled, this tool analyzes four signal categories on applications device ip address email address (only if this information has been provided as part of the candidate’s application) phone number (only if this information has been provided as part of the candidate’s application) the analysis of these areas is used to identify suspicious patterns that could be indicative of fraudulent activity once candidate fraud detection is enabled, ashby automatically analyzes new applications as they are submitted existing applications are not analyzed automatically, but you can run fraud checks on them manually or in bulk \[insert link to article] enabling the candidate fraud detection tool enabling admin settings candidate fraud detection must be enabled in your admin settings before it can be enabled for certain applications navigate to admin > organization setup > opt in features and scroll to the security section enable the fraud detection toggle scroll back up and locate the candidate fraud signal summary tile if you would like an ai generated summary of fraud signals (recommended), turn this on using candidate fraud detection requires 2 ai credits per candidate enabling candidate fraud signal summaries does not add any additional charge on top of this information on how ai credits are allotted can be found in docid 7q8kj16ibgcp9zsjx86xm for info on purchasing additional credits, check out docid\ edqz9zv9vdcljyzsxjdhe enabling fraud detection on all jobs to enable fraud detection across all jobs by default navigate to admin > organization setup > security check enable fraud detection on all jobs screenshot showing the checkbox to enable fraud detection on all jobs as checked enabling/disabling fraud detection for specific jobs by default, fraud detection will run across all jobs when enabled within the security section of admin if you’d like to only enable fraud detection for specific jobs, or turn off fraud detection for certain jobs if you have it set as enabled by default, this is also possible to access and amend the fraud detection settings for a specific job head to jobs > jobs and select the job in question navigate to the settings section of the job use the enable fraud detection setting to enable or disable the tool as required screenshot showing the fraud detection setting enabled under the settings tab of a job faq c an i give feedback on the ai summary provided when fraud signals are detected? you can, yes click the three dots on the ai summary and select give feedback from there you can give a positive or negative rating and add any comments we really appreciate any feedback provided h ow do i enable the ai generated candidate fraud signal summary option? navigate to admin > organization setup > opt in features if you have yet to opt in to enable ai features, opt in there is required to enable this feature check the ai generated candidate fraud signal summary checkbox to enable this specific ai feature please note that this feature is not enabling the candidate fraud detection tool as a whole, just the ai generated summary c an i filter candidates by their fraud status? yes, you can use the fraud status field to filter candidates down by their status when it comes to fraud detection you can then use the drop down to select the fraud status that you’re looking for you can choose from the following multiple fraud signals unreviewed marked fraudulent marked false positive marked uncertain flagged for monitoring a re fraud signal detection checks only run at the application review stage? currently, candidate fraud signal checks are only automatically run in the application review stage and are only run at the point of the application being submitted, yes