Someone is going to lose money today.
Not to a business that failed. Not to a bad investment. To a job ad that was never real.
It will happen on WhatsApp. Or Nairaland. Or a Facebook group. Someone will see a posting that says “Earn ₦500,000 monthly, no experience needed, send ₦5,000 registration fee.” And because they are desperate, because NYSC just ended, because their parents are asking when they will get a job, because they have been applying for six months and heard nothing, they will send the money.
They will never hear from that “company” again.
This is not rare. It happens every single day in Nigeria. The people it happens to are almost always young, almost always looking for their first real opportunity, and almost always too embarrassed to talk about it afterwards.
We decided to do something about it.
What we built
The Kade Labs Job Scam Checker is a free tool. You paste any job ad from LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Nairaland, Facebook, anywhere, and it analyses the posting in seconds.
It checks for the patterns that real scammers use. Payment requests before hiring. Gmail addresses instead of corporate email. Vague company names. Unrealistic salaries. Pressure to act immediately. WhatsApp-only communication. The specific templates that Nigerian job scammers have been using for years.
You get a scam risk score from 0 to 100, a clear verdict (Safe, Suspicious, or Likely Scam), the specific red flags found, and advice on what to do next.
The quick scan is free. Always.
If you want a deeper analysis with company legitimacy check, salary benchmarking against Nigerian market rates, language pattern analysis, comparison against known scam templates, and a step-by-step verification checklist, that costs ₦500. One time. Less than the ₦5,000 you might lose to a scam.
Why this matters
We teach people to use AI. We teach them to build with it. And then we show them that the things they build can solve real problems for real people.
The Job Scam Checker was built using AI. The entire thing. The interface, the analysis engine, the scam detection logic. All of it. Using the same skills we teach in the Kade Labs community.
A student who completes our learning path could build something like this. Could build something better. Could build a WhatsApp bot version and charge businesses ₦1,000 a month to protect their employees. Could add it to their portfolio and show employers they can build real products.
That is why we are here.
Try it now
Go to [kadelabs.io/marketplace/job-scam-checker] and paste a job ad. Any job ad. One you saw on LinkedIn this morning. One someone forwarded on WhatsApp. One you are not sure about.
If it is real, the tool will tell you. If it is a scam, the tool will tell you that too. And it might save you ₦5,000. Or ₦50,000. Or months of frustration chasing something that was never real.
Share this with someone who is job hunting right now. They need it.
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*The Job Scam Checker is the first paid tool on the Kade Labs Marketplace. More tools are coming. If you want to learn how to build tools like this yourself, [join the community] for ₦1,000 a month.*