The Growing Reality of AI-Enhanced Candidate Fraud

The report examines the growing prevalence of AI-driven deception in hiring—ranging from candidates using LLMs to embellish résumés to the emergence of deepfakes and synthetic identities—citing internal Endorsed tool metrics and industry estimates. It frames the hiring pipeline as a security risk, presents detection and verification recommendations (identity assurance, contextual testing, AI-on-AI detection, and clear AI-use policies), and positions these measures as necessary to reduce fraud and potential insider threats.