Verify before you act

Four habits that defeat most impersonation

1. Verify through official channels.Find the institution's website yourself and use the contact routes published there — never only the addresses or links inside the message.
2. Find the notice at its source.Genuine opportunities appear on the institution's own procurement portal. Search there for the reference number or title before responding.
3. Treat upfront-fee requests with extreme caution. Official procurement does not charge registration or processing fees through personal money-transfer services to receive tender documents. Bid securities exist, but they are bank instruments defined in the official dossier — not transfers requested by email.
4. Read domains character by character. A single substituted letter is easy to miss and is the most common impersonation technique.

What GLODA checks for you

Every record on GLODA carries a verification credential: Verifiedwhen its provenance traces to the publisher's own channel or to a domain on GLODA's official-domain list of 43 development institutions, and the neutral Not yet verifiedotherwise — never hidden, never accused. Ingested notices are also screened for lookalike contact domains, free-mail contacts, and payment-instruction language, with every observation cited in the record's brief. Subscribers on Professional and above can paste any invitation into the verification tool for the same checks on demand; pasted text is analyzed in the request and never stored. The full rules live on the methodology page.

Report a suspicious notice

Signed-in users can report any record or pasted text from the record itself or the verification tool; reports go to a reviewed queue and outcomes strengthen the checks above. Not a subscriber? Email sales@gloda.org with the text you received. A report is an observation for review — GLODA states what can and cannot be verified, and does not declare any notice fraudulent.