Someone is pretending to be me
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Someone is pretending to be me
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#2Wow. This is creepy. Props to the interviewer for allowing the real Connor to stay on the interview and observe.
This is one of my big problems with LinkedIn. We put so much information out there in public, it’s really easy for people do do this. That information can also be used for things worse than applying for jobs.
I think small companies hiring freelancers are most vulnerable to this. In the UK at least companies have to carry out very strict right to work checks, including passports, National Insurance numbers, etc.
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#3I could sure use a flowchart to follow this story. Baffling level of fraud.
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#5Related active discussion in this thread. Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
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#6These kind of frauds are really bad for legitimate remote workers. Hope employers don't get burned and start cutting back on remote opportunities.
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#7Cached mirror, since I'm getting a gateway timeout: https://web.archive.org/web/20220927155115/https://connortum...
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There exists public information about me and yet I don't really expect people to impersonate me on interviews. I guess I'm just naive.
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#9Wow. This is creepy. Props to the interviewer for allowing the real Connor to stay on the interview and observe. This is one of my big problems with LinkedIn. We put so much information out there in public, it’s really easy for people do do this. That information can also be used for things worse than applying for jobs. I think small companies hiring freelancers are most vulnerable to this. In the UK at least compani…
A company I was working for wanted to bring on a couple of freelance devs for a short-term project and I had to handle the interviews.
I ended up uncovering a whole scheme where an experienced dev in the US would hop on the calls/video interview and then the actual work would be handed off to some other people based overseas.
If you tried to contact the “dev” for something, your call would be routed to a google voice number and you’d receive a text message in somewhat broken English shortly after.
Their scam only lasted a few hours with us, but I often wonder how well they are able to pull this off.
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#10From the headline alone, I was hoping this would be someone writing about being the subject of Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal".