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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by galaxyLogic »

alexanderh wrote: post #243
jeroenhd wrote: post #121

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Everybody wins until the tax man comes knocking for all of the dollars owed, or when "Connor Tumbleson" gets flagged as a terrible employee when all those copy-pasted qualifications don't line up with reality and the work is mediocre. As reported elsewhere in these threads, the credentials and interview process are all worked out upfront, the interview no long becomes a valid test of qualifications for the position.…

>I'm not sure if these people are a small step up from the call center scammers because at least they deliver something or a small step down because they're supposedly capable enough to do better. This is what I don't understand.... They have the skills (supposedly).. I mean sure, if they are foreign developers they wont always be getting the best pay or opportunities in their own country... But I have never seen a s…

> They have the skills (supposedly)..

But they are not accountable. If things go bad it does not affect their reputation since their id is fake.

They could be criminals who want to plant malware into your product. Or steal your passwords. Since they're working under false id in another part of the world it's hard to arrest them.

Employers are willing to pay a bigger salary if they think they have someone in the same country under same jurisdiction.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by viridian »

cpfohl wrote: post #326
moralestapia wrote: post #273

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Too low? Too high?

Low. Much too low. Going rate starts in the low 100s and has no super hard cap. 80/hr overseas, or in less urban parts of the US is pretty standard. I’d question the reason for staying, though, since finding higher paying remote work is pretty easy these days…

$80 an hour is a salary of $166,400

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by radarsat1 »

braingenious wrote: post #304
radarsat1 wrote: post #181

This is amazing. I wanted to add one thing. I noticed after reading the full blog post, and scanning through all the HN comments here, that there has been actually no mention, as far as I can tell, from any parties involved, or even any commenters, of any intention to make a police report. Now, I understand not trusting the police, and often it's more trouble than it's worth to deal with them. But this is a situation…

>These people are organized to perform identity theft, which is literally organized crime This seems hyperbolic (though not impossible.) If I were to attempt this scheme, would I have created an organized crime entity? I think this whole thing is a novel example of grift, which is by definition bad. The idea of every bad act being turned into an excuse to necessitate federal police action is… weird.

You don't think this is a crime?

I mean, IANAL but I'm pretty sure taking in income while posing as someone else must constitute a crime.

If not, lesson learned I guess. (Don't know unless you talk to a lawyer or try to report it.) But if it is a crime, then yes, it's across state and national boundaries, so who else would have jurisdiction but federal police?

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Post by bigbluedots »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #316
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #227

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BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…

> also: do not use regex for parsing XML HE COMES! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

Hadn't seen that post before and it's fantastic! Thanks for linking

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by viridian »

radarsat1 wrote: post #328
jstarfish wrote: post #207

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You vastly overestimate the degree to which the police give a shit. Unless there's an actual financial loss or threat to life, they don't care. This barely qualifies as identity theft anyway; it's attempted fraud. They won't take a report of your phone number being spoofed, but they'll deploy SWAT teams to unsuspecting houses at the word of bored teenagers. Do you know the imposter's actual identity? What would you e…

I understand. But you don't really know if you don't even try to report it. And on this case.. I mean, this has to do with taking in income while posing as someone else, which ultimately affects the IRS, so I suspect there might be more interest at the FBI level than you think. But who knows. I'd be curious to know how common this is / is becoming. It's certainly novel to me.

I really doubt they care, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze for them. Its an incredibly difficult crime to prosecute for, even if the people were operating in the US, which they almost certainly are not. They really only care about the highest of high people cyber crimes (silkroad, anontalk, lulzsec, etc), because it takes a dozen or more agents months to years to resolve a single one.

Generally when it comes to this sort of stuff, if you cant hand them all the evidence with a bow on it, they don't care unless it involves an imminent terror attack, or major drug/CSAM ring. This doesn't just apply to us average joes either, every cop I know (so, 3) who has ever tried to pass something they viewed as important to the feds, has been stiff armed and told that it's not a priority.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by 2fast4you »

mrandypratt37 wrote: post #86

I'm a US-based accountant who is currently interviewing for his first job in software and I was approached by someone on on LinkedIn about an opportunity. Seemed fishy, but figured I could risk 15 minutes. The person set up a meeting between me and a Taiwanese Developer for this exact thing. He said he had 7 years experience and had a contract drafted for he and I to become "business partner" where I would take the m…

I was approached on LinkedIn for a similar reason. It never went farther than LinkedIn because I was sketched out

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by black_puppydog »

heleninboodler wrote: post #253
bqe wrote: post #160

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I remember being asked this during my interview at Google. It was the first time I heard it and I gave an answer that iterated over the list twice. The interviewer said that it wasn't good enough and I am only allowed to iterate over it once. He didn't let me write my O(2n) solution down so he returned a strong no as feedback.

This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring criterion. Guy Steele gave an incredibly interesting guest talk[1] at google about four different ways to solve this exact problem, and the fact that it's an i…

Thanks for the link, that made for entertaining watching!

Curious that he gave that talk about parallelism in the end of 2015, and talked about how we'll engineer more systems to enable parallelism.

First question at the end was actually whether we can get this into existing languages because new languages are "notoriously hard to get accepted."

I'm currently learning Rust and now I'm wondering how the iterator map() and other "accumulation style" functions are implemented and whether there's a way to make these parallel, since the map() call treats things independently and a sum() could be done in the proposed tree style way.

Guess I have a piece of code to look up in the standard library :)

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by spennant »

google234123 wrote: post #263
lupire wrote: post #238

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He probably got chastised for poor interviewing in Feedback on Feedback.

That almost never happens.

It happens… I’ve chastised an interviewer before. Their job was to identify: 1) Can the candidate do the job? 2) Will the candidate do the job? 3) Will the candidate work well the team?

Their job was not to emulate FAANG, intimidate the candidate, or see if the candidate studied Leetcode.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by cfeduke »

Kind of related - I worked in the defense industry in the early 00s. I found out a couple years after I left a certain defense contractor that defense contractor was still using my credentials along with other current and former employees to submit for contracts.
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