What Can Aversafe Do for YOU?

Josh London
Aversafe
Published in
2 min readNov 27, 2017
Students, job-seekers, and other individual users form the beating heart of the Aversafe network!

Credential fraud can sound like a pretty abstract threat. There are plenty of alarming facts and figures out there showing that fake degrees and exaggerated resumes have a profound impact on businesses and big institutions — but it’s hard to imagine how these things might affect normal individuals, or even YOU, on an everyday level. Make no mistake, credential fraud has an especially severe impact on individuals, and its effects can be deeply personal.

You could lose out on your dream job before it even starts to a candidate with a fabricated background or an exaggerated CV. Your reputation could be ruined by someone else falsely laying claim to your accomplishments. The value of your university degree or professional license could be totally delegitimized by forgeries. You could even find yourself in a terrifying situation where you or someone you care about is put in serious danger.

Just imagine waking up in the middle of surgery because your anesthesiologist faked their medical degree, or being caught in speeding traffic without your brakes because some mechanic forged their business license. These horror stories might sound far-fetched, but they occur with shocking regularity. Worse yet, with the number of diploma mills on the rise globally, they’re becoming more likely every day.

Aversafe wants to change that. We’re working to combat credential fraud and stem the tide of international diploma mills with a global credential verification network. We talk a lot about how we’ll help HR departments and educational institutions save time, improve efficiency and cut costs — and we will — but at the end of the day our focus has always been, and will always be, on individuals.

Its time to protect yourself from credential fraud! Build your trusted profile, invite peers, employers and universities to endorse your credentials and land that dream job with Aversafe. With Aversafe you will always have complete control over your personal data, allowing you to rest easy while you build up your network of professional contacts, exchange your verified information, and rise to the top of the candidate list with verified credentials.

When we say we’ll save employers, educational institutions, and everyday individuals millions of dollars a year in lost opportunities, bad hires and tarnished reputations, we really mean it. The Aversafe platform was designed from day one with individual users in mind. Students, jobseekers, and other individual users form the beating heart of the Aversafe network. Our platform is practically powered by peer-to-peer attestations — you can verify a friend or former coworker’s credential claims while requesting verification of your own accomplishments in return. Together, these peer-to-peer attestations — backed by trusted Aversafe partners — form a solid first line of defense against credential fraud.

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