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The article never really addresses if it was a totally fake setup or a real crypto company scamming interviewees. Does "Symfa" exist? Does the "Chief Blockchain Officer"?

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I think it's a real company.

https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchRe...

~~Scammers probably got access to the guy's account.~~ (how to make strikethrough...)

He changed his LinkedIn to a different company. I guess check verifications when you get messages from "recruiters."

> (how to make strikethrough...)

Unfortunately(?) you can't: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

this is how you make ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶ words struck through [1]

You can use special a Unicode strikethrough glyphs such as available in https://efck-chat-keyboard.github.io

On LinkedIn can’t you create an account and claim to be an employee of any company? They don’t do email verification to make you prove employment do they?

They do if you want it to be “verified” (at least at bigger places) but I don’t know about smaller places or how people even check that.

so I wrote this article a few weeks back, i reached out to the company on LinkedIn, even tried to connect with their leadership team. sent a few people from the org a draft of the article. I did not get any response at all. so, not really sure about this myself.

also, got blocked by the 'Chief Blockchain Officer' when I asked for a comment.

wow so we don't even know ?? that's wild

did you try commenting under one of their posts

like this one here - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/symfa-global_sometimes-the-fi...

> or a real crypto company scamming interviewees

A real company wouldn't be scamming candidates.

It could be a real company where someone hijacked an e-mail account to pose as someone from the company, though.

Or likely a real company exists, but the applicant was contacted by an impersonator, not them.

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