No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is recruit.co.jp legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official Recruit Co., Ltd. corporate domain returning a 403 error while scammers impersonate the brand in SMS phishing campaigns.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsPage renders a 403 Forbidden error
Japanese text indicates access is currently denied
Intelligence
The domain belongs to Recruit Co., Ltd., a publicly traded Japanese company founded in 1960 that owns Indeed and Glassdoor. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page itself displays a standard 403 Forbidden response, which is a server-side access restriction rather than a scam indicator. Evidence shows scammers frequently impersonate Recruit in fake job or side-work messages, but the domain itself is legitimate. The combination of established business registration, clean technical signals, and documented impersonation attempts points to a trusted corporate site rather than a fraudulent one.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for recruit.co.jp, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- recruit.co.jp is the official website of Recruit Co., Ltd., a major Japanese HR and recruitment services company founded in 1960.
- The company operates globally and owns well-known platforms including Indeed and Glassdoor.
- Scammers frequently impersonate 'Recruit' in SMS and email phishing campaigns to solicit fake side jobs or remote work.
- The official company warns users that legitimate business communications do not come from free email services and advises against clicking suspicious links.
- The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a component of the Nikkei 225 index.
- note.com
"Recently, spam messages soliciting side jobs or remote work while impersonating "Recruit Co., Ltd." have been circulating. This has absolutely no connection to the real Recruit Co., Ltd."
Recruit Co., Ltd. is a major, publicly traded Japanese HR and recruitment services company (TYO: 6098).
Our research found one report of scammers sending spam messages that impersonate Recruit Co., Ltd. to promote fake side jobs or remote work. The real company has publicly stated these messages have no connection to them and warns users that legitimate communications do not come from free email services. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found against the official recruit.co.jp domain itself.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://recruit.co.jp/
- 2403https://www.recruit.co.jp/
Server Reputation
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on recruit.co.jp and not a lookalike like r-ecruit.co.jp.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
recruit.co.jp is the official website of Recruit Co., Ltd., a major Japanese HR company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The page currently returns a 403 Forbidden error, which blocks access but does not indicate malicious activity. Avoid clicking links in unsolicited messages claiming to be from Recruit.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on recruit.co.jp, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- recruit.co.jp passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from recruit.co.jp), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from recruit.co.jp is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report recruit.co.jp as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — recruit.co.jp is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — recruit.co.jp presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, valid for another 39 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- recruit.co.jp resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Japan in JP (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — recruit.co.jp ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 15, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about recruit.co.jp has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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