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Comment by Aurornis | Hacker News Reader

I’ve seen reports from people who were contacted by companies asking to use their identity for jobs. The deal was that the company used their likeness and identity to secure the job, but they would do all of the work and split the paycheck with them.

There are a million reasons why this is a bad idea, but I’m sure they don’t have trouble finding people excited to collect free paychecks.

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We got catfished by an outsourcer on Upwork.

Great interview, good questions, really solid candidate.

His first day on the job, his English went to shit.

Then he refused to pick up the phone or call me back. Lame excuses about how it’s loud there, then he lost his voice, then scheduled a call with the real “Jeff” the American who couldn’t answer anything about what we had discussed an hour earlier.

Reported to Upwork but I sort of doubt they did much about it.

Video calls super important and asking questions that wouldn’t be a normal interview question. Helps to have candidates walk through and explain code they haven’t seen to reduce any prep work that may have happened. I’ve got a few questions I ask that no one is preparing for. I’ve interviewed a couple people that seemed kinda sus, maybe not working as someone else but definitely lied about their capabilities but somehow passing the coding test. This was before LLMs ruined everything too.

We had a video call. He did great.

It was day1 on Slack that the issue was immediately apparent.

I also got contacted via LinkedIn by a “normal” profile of a Dutch guy with normal connections, that was even connected to people I know, offering me the same. I politely suggested it’s not a great idea and declined

In Indian dev groups, we gets ads for "job support" and "interview support" for recruiting people into frauds.

I was once contacted on LinkedIn by an individual asking to use my identity to work in the US

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