I've seen this happen in real life. When I had just graduated, a friend of mine got an interview at a company and gave them my name as well. They offered me 120

I've seen this happen in real life. When I had just graduated, a friend of mine got an interview at a company and gave them my name as well. They offered me 120k and him 45k. We were both new grads from the same program, and he had more work experience than I did. But he was employed, making 40k/yr. So I took the job, he didn't. Years later he got me ANOTHER interview at his company, they offered me 60k, knowing I was literally making twice that. It was really clear that they wanted to make me an offer that I wouldn't take.