diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
index 3f6609af..76fab433 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export async function scrapeController(
     } else {
       return res.status(500).json({
         success: false,
-        error: `(Internal server error) - ${e && e?.message ? e.message : e}`,
+        error: `(Internal server error) - ${(e && e.message) ? e.message : e}`,
       });
     }
   }
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts b/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
index 4b9780df..36928873 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/queue-worker.ts
@@ -488,8 +488,7 @@ async function processJob(job: Job & { id: string }, token: string) {
       success: false,
       document: null,
       project_id: job.data.project_id,
-      error:
-        "Something went wrong... Contact help@mendable.ai or try again." /* etc... */,
+      error: error instanceof Error ? error : typeof error === "string" ? new Error(error) : new Error(JSON.stringify(error)),
     };
 
     if (!job.data.v1 && (job.data.mode === "crawl" || job.data.crawl_id)) {