They are bad interviewers who should not be interviewing technical candidates if they fall for any such scheme, which is impractical and unrealistic in practice

They are bad interviewers who should not be interviewing technical candidates if they fall for any such scheme, which is impractical and unrealistic in practice. I don't care about their broken english, I care about their technical competency. I'm sorry, but they aren't going to dupe me out of my expertise, unless they are actual software developers. But even an actual developer with the right experience could steal anything you give them access to. If you have concern about that, then you hire domestic and you require ID verification and you avoid contractors, so you know that you can at least prosecute them if they do. Any company who is hiring off the internet, internationally, on the basis of a deepfake and a resume and is granting them elevated access to client PII on day one deserves to be exploited and deserves to be sued by their clients.