> It's not a matter of hiding. Companies do not want to know. If a company doesn't want to know you shouldn't be doing business with that company. Sure some o

> It's not a matter of hiding. Companies do not want to know. If a company doesn't want to know you shouldn't be doing business with that company. Sure some of these cases are John Doe wanting to live as a secret expat but not all. In a remote world, you have to know. There are numerous fake employee scams that have a number of different outcomes that present exactly in this manner. 1) Steal or forge a decent looking identity. 2) Have a face that interviews and attends some of the early weeks on camera then slides back to off camera 3) Profit whether it's theft or double-dipping or code farms This isn't a pretend scenario. It's active. Depending on your vertical and internal zero trust architecture a breach of this nature could be devastating. So sure, maybe that employee is lying about their location to soak a big salary under a cheap cost of living but maybe they are something much darker and you can't leave that stone unturned.