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I was asked to install malware during a fake interview
- elashri 5mo ago> become a technical advisor for their web3 project That by itself should have been the first red flag. I also heard a lot of these stories recently. I think this might be one of the good use cases of GitHub Codespaces.
- ashishb 5mo agoNot for someone who get 10-20 such requests a year. None till date were such scams.
- tdeck 5mo agoAll of them were scams, this was just the first time you were the intended victim.
- ashishb 5mo agoThose were real companies. The conversation started online and immediately moved in-person. I was never asked to install anything. I was not even given code access (without NDA) and I did get paid with equity/money in cases there was a mutual match and we proceeded.
- ccimmergreen 5mo agoOh god, thanks for the heads up. It's a wonder how many people fell for it, definitely non-zero I reckon. I would hate for this to become a thing on LinkedIn.
- flexagoon 5mo ago[dead]
- croemer 5mo ago> If it is open-source, you will see a meaningful activity - stars, forks, contributors. That's not true, I'm quite sure most repos on GitHub have neither many stars, nor forks, nor multiple contributors.
- bryanhogan 5mo agoTo add to that, any metrics like these can be quite meaningless since you can just buy them online. Please never rely on any such "social" metrics.
- ashishb 5mo agoThis is just a negative filter to see as a warning sign. It is like walking into a dark alley at night. Nothing might happen but you should be on the alert.
- kunley 5mo agoKudos for giving the actual names of the guys.
- ashishb 5mo agoYeah. Real profile names. Unlikely that those guys were real. And I did reach out to them for explanation. Only to be blocked by both!