I've been approached several times online by different people who wanted to buy my CodeMentor (now arc.dev) profile. It's a pretty strong profile with a lot of

I've been approached several times online by different people who wanted to buy my CodeMentor (now arc.dev) profile. It's a pretty strong profile with a lot of good feedbacks, but I haven't done any work (mentoring) in the past few years. I see how this could be valuable as it can be really hard to build credibility from 0. (Though it definitely depends on the particular platform rules/dynamics.) E.g. I used to have an Elance profile for 15 years or so, which got transitioned to Upwork, but it mostly got reset to zero. When I last checked about 5 years ago I was presented as someone who has never worked there and never had any feedback which would have made it very hard to win projects. (Not that it seemed worthwhile anyway.) So while it's 100% unethical, there is probably a pretty strong motivation for these kind of trickeries.