I have been on the other side, people wanting to hire me to be the front-door either take interviews or the front-door with customers, the last time I was offered $xx/h + 20% from each project's revenue.

Darknet dairies has an interesting episode about this: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/

It's a real problem which makes it harder for people like me that are legitimately working remotely. This has existed for a long time but it wasn't as popular because remote working was unpopular before the pandemic.

> Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call

Unfortunately, this wouldn't solve it, a person can join the calls and get someone else to do the work.