Detect tampered and deepfake Relieving Letter

What a genuine relieving letter contains

A relieving letter runs shorter than an experience letter and does different work. On company letterhead it gives the employee's name and ID, the designation held at exit, the date of joining and the last working day, then the operative sentence: that the resignation was accepted, that duties and company property were handed back, and that the employee stands relieved of responsibilities from the close of that day. A no-dues or full-and-final settlement line usually follows, then the HR signatory's name and title, and a stamp where the company uses one.

The last working day is the pivot. It has to fall after the resignation date by at least the notice period the contract sets, it has to precede the letter's own date of issue, and it has to sit before the joining date at the next employer rather than inside it. It also has to match the same date on the experience letter from that company, and the settlement line contradicts any claim that the employee walked out with dues outstanding.

How relieving letter forgeries are made

• Last working day shifted

  The exit date is moved forward to close a gap before the next job, or backward so it no longer overlaps a period the candidate was drawing a second salary. Two or three characters change on a letter that is otherwise entirely real, which is why it survives a reading and not an analysis.

• Designation corrected to match the experience letter

  Where two letters from the same employer disagree about the title held at exit, the relieving letter is the one rewritten, because it is short and offers the change fewer places to show. The substituted word rarely keeps the letter spacing of the words it displaced.

• Clean-exit wording inserted

  A letter that originally recorded an exit under notice of misconduct, or with dues pending, is rewritten so the clause disappears and a standard release sentence takes its place. Replacing a whole line leaves a paragraph whose leading and justification differ subtly from the paragraphs bracketing it.

• Stamp applied in a PDF editor

  Where a company stamps its relieving letters, a stamp image is copied off another document and laid over the signature block. A real impression sits unevenly in the ink and breaks where the paper surface rises; a placed one holds a uniform density and rests above the signature instead of running through it.

• A letter built around a resignation email

  A candidate who resigned but was never issued a relieving letter constructs one, taking the wording from a genuine acceptance email and the header from the company's public branding. Nothing is an edit of anything, so field comparisons find nothing, and it separates on how the header was produced and on a signature that appears nowhere else in the file.

What TamperCheck checks on a relieving letter

TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class.

• Stamp authenticity and placement

  Stamps are assessed for whether the ink was impressed onto the page or printed as part of it, and for whether the impression was placed digitally after the fact.

• Letterhead, logo, and issuer plausibility

  Issuer branding is checked for resolution and compression consistency against the body text it sits on. A logo lifted from a website carries the signature of its source, not of the document.

• Date and validity consistency

  Issue, expiry, and period dates are checked against one another and against the file's own creation metadata, which catches backdating and validity extension.

• And many more checks

  The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on a relieving letter. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks.

Who verifies a relieving letter, and why

Background screeners confirming a clean exit from prior employment. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging.

How to verify a relieving letter in 4 steps

1. 1

   Check the fields against each other

   Read last working day, designation, and HR signature together rather than one at a time. Forgers typically change one value and leave the rest of the document describing the original.

2. 2

   Inspect the file metadata

   Open the document properties and look at the producer, creation date, and modification date. A document produced by a consumer PDF editor, or created long after the date printed on its face, is worth a closer look.

3. 3

   Ask for a second document

   Request a corroborating document from the same issuer or an adjacent period. Forgery effort concentrates on one file, so inconsistencies surface as soon as there are two to compare.

4. 4

   Run a forensic check

   Manual review catches obvious edits but not field-level pixel manipulation or synthetic generation. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks on a relieving letter and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 within seconds, at $0.50 per document.

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