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Someone is pretending to be me

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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by axus »

travisjungroth wrote: post #106
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is it a good legal/corporate decision to hide the person who claims to be the original and let him listen to the interview with the other candidate? Consider the situation from the perspective of the interviewer: They don't have all of the background we did while reading this blog. They haven't even had time to process what Connor #1 said by the time that Connor #2 arrives. The decision to hear them both out for a…

Letting them both in the same room at the same time was probably the safer thing. Maybe there’s an argument, or maybe one bounces, clearing it up. But having one person hide is riskier. It means a random person could eaves drop on my interview by just pretending to me and telling this story. I mean, super cool though. I imagine my adrenaline would be going as the interviewer. I’d probably chill out when I realized th…

Definitely a Jerry Springer moment when he "could not stand this anymore" and jumped back into the conversation.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by walrus01 »

There are people out there right now putting a truly astounding amount of information on their wholly-public Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles.

My main message for people is to resist the social temptation to share every detail of your family's life on social media, in the long run it's better for your privacy, your family's privacy, your security, and reduces opportunities for malicious data mining.

It's sufficient to build an entire identity theft kit if you're a malicious actor wanting to impersonate somebody. Somebody would combine whatever is available from social media with things like linkedin profiles, CVs, github projects, other github-like-project profiles, and linkedin-type business networking site data.

Or at least a good enough to pass cursory inspection/examination identity theft kit to impersonate somebody with a close-enough email address, or a throwaway custom domain name registered for the purpose.

I would highly recommend anyone that does keep an account somewhere like Facebook to stop posting photos of your house, family members and to set all of your 'privacy' settings to whatever is the friends-only/maximum setting. Try looking at your own profile from a different browser with no cookies in a burner account or incognito mode and see if any of your personal life is visible.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by comboy »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

This comment thread feels like a game of Mafia[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by Naracion »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

Recount _this_ story during the social / break between interviews if you ever get an onsite. :D

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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boomskats wrote: post #133
blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by filmgirlcw »

lazide wrote: post #120
filmgirlcw wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I'd be so in to take part in this drama. It would probably be one of the most memorable job interviews of all time. And I doubt there would be too many legal or corporate ramifications from allowing someone else to be on the call with their camera off. These are contractor positions, not full-time. Frankly, it's a risk I would take to be able to witness this sort of thing in real-time.

Eh, don't bet on it. What if #2 was real, and #1 was someone stalking #2? Or an abusive ex? If #2 doesn't get the the potential job, they could come after you for all sorts of things - emotional damages, economic damage (from not getting the job), etc. They might even be able to get the court to force you to give them the job, or at least waste years of your time and mental health dealing with legal hassles. It's hil…

I mean, you're hiring a contractor off of Upwork, not from a reputable consultancy (to be clear, I'm sure established consultancies do shady shit too, but the risk profile is different), so I think the risk is pretty small. We're talking edge cases on a scenario that is already an edge case.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by gunapologist99 »

yellowstuff wrote: post #101
darau1 wrote: post #81

Someone messaged me on reddit once, and straight up asked me to do exactly this. Below is the message, but I haven't included their name because I think they were at least trying to seem sincere. --- Hi, hope you're doing well. We are looking for a professional interviewee. I'm not sure if you've heard similar thing somewhere. We are a talented developer group specialized in web and mobile software development. We ha…

I've heard of large consulting companies that do a "bait and switch" where the client initially talks to a fantastic technical person prior to signing a contract, then never hears from them again.

Similar to large law firms; a senior partner closes the deal, and then they shuffle you off onto an associate fresh off the bar (who often still bills out at the full senior partner rate!)

Sometimes law firms don't even really disclose who's doing the work, and sometimes in their invoices they'll have a paralegal's initials under the "Atty" column.

This is sometimes true even for very large and reputable law firms.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by 101008 »

Slightly off topic, but

> Thankfully I'm not sitting on a Windows machine and can just preview the document via Google without a fear of infecting myself.

Is that true? Can you get infected by seeing a preview of a Google Doc from Gmail or even opening it on Google Docs? I thought the browser was isolated.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by conductr »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #37

This story is much more fun when you come at it from the interviewer's position. You've been doing interviews every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation. You're about to repeat the experience for the 18th time and you're 100% on autopilot. But suddenly you're in a spy thriller. This is the greatest thing that's ever happened. Is it a good legal/corporate decis…

Some trainwreck interviews make for good office lore and this one tops the cake.
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