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Interview Fraud & Security Checklist

The Interview Fraud & Security Checklist provides recruiters, hiring managers, and admissions coordinators with independent integrity signals to help identify potential irregularities during interviews.

Written by Alex Harper

Important: These indicators are completely independent of the AI interview score. They do not affect a candidate's score, ranking, or recommendation in any way.

Security flags exist to support human review — not to make decisions automatically. When a flag is triggered, recruiters should review the associated evidence (video, audio, or activity logs) before drawing conclusions. Depending on your organization's hiring policies, confirmed instances of interview fraud or policy violations may result in candidate disqualification.

1. Third-Party Voice Detection

What it checks: Whether additional voices are present during the interview.

This includes coaching, prompting, or conversations occurring while the candidate is responding.

Status

What it means

  • Green

Only the candidate's voice detected.

  • Yellow (Warning)

Possible background voices detected.

  • Red

Third-party voice detected during one or more responses.


​2. Eye Gaze Analysis

What it checks: Whether the candidate generally looks towards the camera while responding.

This is an attention signal. Looking away from the camera may have been caused by many factors, such as thinking or reading notes. This indicator should always be interpreted together with other security signals.

Status

What it means

  • Green

The candidate looked towards the camera for 75% or more of the response.

  • Yellow (Warning)

The candidate looked towards the camera for 50–74% of the response

  • Red

The candidate looked towards the camera for less than 50% of the response.

3. AI Content Detection

What it checks: Whether responses show characteristics commonly associated with AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

Status

What it means

  • Pass (Green)

No significant indicators of AI-generated content.

  • Yellow (Warning)

Some indication of AI-generated content.

  • Fail (Red)

Strong indicators that one or more responses may have been AI-generated or substantially assisted by AI.


​4. Lip Sync Detection

What it checks: Whether the candidate's lip movements are synchronized with the recorded audio.

This helps identify manipulated or synthetic (deepfake) video responses.

Status

What it means

  • Green

Lip movements are consistent with the recorded audio.

  • Yellow (Warning)

Minor synchronization inconsistencies detected.

  • Red

Significant lip-sync inconsistencies detected.

5. ID Verification

What it checks: Whether the person completing the interview matches the identity document submitted.

When a candidate uploads a government-issued ID or other identity document, the system compares the face on the ID with the face in the video interview and generates an identity match score.

Status

What it means

  • Green

Identity match score is 70% or higher.

  • Red

Identity match score is below 70% — the submitted ID may not match the interview participant.


​6. Voice Detection

What it checks: Whether the candidate's responses contain clear spoken audio. This helps identify responses with missing audio, muted microphones, or extremely limited verbal answers.

Status

What it means

  • Green

Clear voice detected in all responses.

  • Yellow (Warning)

One or more responses contain very limited speech (fewer than 10 spoken words).

  • Red

No voice detected in one or more responses.


​7. Browser Tab Switching

What it checks: Whether the candidate left the interview window while recording a response.

Frequent tab switching may indicate that external resources were accessed during the interview. This signal should be interpreted together with other security indicators.

Status

What it means

  • Green

No browser tab switching detected.

  • Yellow (Warning)

Limited browser tab switching detected.

  • Red

Repeated browser tab switching detected.


​8. Copy & Paste Detection

What it checks: Whether text was pasted into text-based interview responses.

This helps identify answers that may have been prepared using external sources rather than written in real time.

Status

What it means

  • Green

No copy-and-paste activity detected.

  • Yellow (Warning)

Limited copy-and-paste activity detected.

  • Red

Significant copy-and-paste activity detected.

How to Use These Signals

  1. Review, don't reject. A flag is a prompt for human review, never an automatic disqualifier. Environmental factors — background noise, poor lighting, camera placement — can trigger false positives.

  2. Check the evidence. Each flag links to the specific response or moment that triggered it. Watch or listen before making a judgment.

  3. Look for patterns. A single yellow flag is rarely conclusive. Multiple red flags across different checks warrant closer scrutiny.

  4. Follow your policy. Disqualification decisions should follow your organization's documented hiring and integrity policies.




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