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> If doing fully remote, they could be dialing in from another country and immune from arrest. Makes it much easier to do. This also substantially increases th
by lumost 4y ago
> If doing fully remote, they could be dialing in from another country and immune from arrest. Makes it much easier to do.
This also substantially increases the reward. Traveling to SF for a 2 month con as a mid-level software engineer isn't a good deal. Working remote from a low cost location for a 2 month con might be a fantastic deal.
- lazide 4y agoFor sure. It wouldn't surprise me if a successful con like this - even if it only went on a month or two - could net them the equivalent of a 1-2 years of normal income locally or more. If they got lucky and they ended up in a situation like a prior co-worker of mine did at IBM (he wasn't scamming them, just a Software Engineer caught in the middle of a raft of corporate acquisitions and overwhelmed leadership) where they set him adrift for YEARS without direction or line management, it could be their retirement. Bonus - chances are, little to no taxes compared to the other option too, depending on how they structured the scam. The cut-out/middle man would get left holding the bag, but what else is new. Other Bonus - they wouldn't be using their real name, so chances are, no longer term impacts to the patsy either, unless they happen to end up trying to work legitimately with someone involved at the target company years later. Pretty unlikely to bother folks involved in this type of scam, IMO.