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> covid-19 changed the equation dramatically in favour of the scammers I disagree. The same scam could be pulled any day of the year before the pandemic. And e
by boltzmann-brain 4y ago
> covid-19 changed the equation dramatically in favour of the scammers
I disagree. The same scam could be pulled any day of the year before the pandemic. And eventually those who saw the extreme profitability of this made a "plausibly deniable" outsourcing shop and ran things that way.
- imron 4y agoYes, the scammers could have pulled this scam any day of the year before the pandemic, and I’m sure they did, but that’s only one side of the equation. Now consider how many companies were willing to hire fully remote workers before the pandemic, and how many were willing to hire fully remote workers during and after the pandemic, and that will answer why the scammers have been able to scale.