Gainrep is a career network that includes a platform for professional recommendations, jobs, professional discussions, and a resume builder. With Gainrep, users can easily invite their teammates or friends to give them professional recommendations, which help them land their dream job.
Gainrep (gainrep.com) has 470 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.6 out of 5.
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gainrep.com
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Education Services
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2026
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Scam site. Tries to ask to reach out to your contacts unclearly, even when you're helping someone else out. It is extremely deceptive, and should not need to request your contacts in the process to give someone else feedback, and made it very difficult to find a skip option. It didnt even need to request my device permissions, and somehow knew all my contacts. DO NOT USE!
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Peterson O.
This is a scam
This is a scam! Asking my friends to pay to recommend me (…without my permission) I don’t recommend.
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Abolusoro O.
I got an email from them asking me to…
I got an email from them asking me to rate a colleague, upon giving the recommendation, they sent an email to everyone on my recommendation, they spammed everybody on my email contact asking them to rate me, even though I did not ask for it.
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Kayode O.
This website hijacks your contacts
This website hijacks your contacts, and spams them with emails as though you sent them.
Avoid.
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Leo W.
I received an email from an…
I received an email from an acquaintance “requesting a recommendation” when I gave him one it made me sign up and proceeding to email all of my contacts the same message. Classic phishing scam, don’t know how they are so consistent and getting their emails delivered! You guys are the scum of the earth and you know it…
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Vikram B.
Spam that emails everyone in ur contacts
Spam that emails everyone in ur contacts
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Sue
Unsolicited spam
I run music gigs.
I received an email from Gainrep out of the blue asking me to "endorse" a particular musician. I had no idea what this was supposed to mean. I ignored it.
Then I received another email asking me to endorse the same musician.
There was a great big box to click on to "endorse", and a tiny little link to click on to "unsubscribe".
I have never subscribed to Gainrep and had never even heard of them before this. So I have had to unsubscribe from something I never subscribed to in the first place.
I strongly object to receiving this kind of unsolicited email, which is an invasion of privacy, a waste of my time and basically spam.
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for your O.
This is Hack Job
No This is Hack Job, I did not approve or authorize them stealing my contacts then sending wire transfer request to my bank or spoofing my emails. Stay Away Report as a scam and delete anything from this.
Reply from Gainrep
11 hours ago
Hello,
Gainrep is a platform designed to simplify the process of obtaining professional endorsements. Our users can request endorsements from their contacts, including via email.
* I clicked on link to endorse, and it asked for my email Name and Such, It is not as simple as giving someone a review, Gain Rep Hi Jacks your contacts and spoofs emails
However, simply signing up does not automatically trigger any endorsement requests.
What the evidence shows
1. Gainrep steals your Google contacts
A cyber‑threat analyst documented that Gainrep immediately pulls your Google contacts after login and uses them to send messages.
2. It sends emails that look like they came from you
Reports describe Gainrep sending unsolicited emails to your contacts “on your behalf,” which is exactly how spoofing scams operate.
3. This is consistent with email spoofing behavior
Spoofing = forging the “From” field so an email appears to come from your address even though the sender never logged into your account.
4. Victims report being tricked into signing up
People describe receiving fake invitations from “friends,” signing up, and then having Gainrep message their entire contact list.
To send requests, users must take several deliberate steps: provide explicit consent THIS IS TRICK PART 1 , check the box labeled “I confirm and authorize Gainrep YOU THINK YOU ARE CONSENTING FOR GAINREP TO SEND YOU EMAILS AND SO YOU CAN ENDORSE A CONTACT NOT TO send invitations to my contacts on my behalf,” and then click the appropriate button to proceed. THERE IS NO SUCH BUTTON
If you haven’t completed these steps and still noticed invitations being sent, please let us know so we can investigate further. If you’ve accidentally invited your contacts, you can stop any future invitations by visiting the My Network page. PROBABLY ANOTHER TRICK GOING TO YOUR PAGE!
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. HAD TO CANCELL CREDIT CARDS AND DISPUTE A CHARGE SINCE YOUR HACK!
Response from GainrepJun 11, 2026
Hello,
Gainrep is a platform designed to simplify the process of obtaining professional endorsements. Our users can request endorsements from their contacts, including via email. However, simply signing up does not automatically trigger any endorsement requests.
To send requests, users must take several deliberate steps: provide explicit consent, check the box labeled “I confirm and authorize Gainrep to send invitations to my contacts on my behalf,” and then click the appropriate button to proceed.
If you haven’t completed these steps and still noticed invitations being sent, please let us know so we can investigate further. If you’ve accidentally invited your contacts, you can stop any future invitations by visiting the My Network page.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.