An associate of mine has been doing this for the past 10 years and he makes a pretty good living doing it. He's done everything from pretending to be a manager

An associate of mine has been doing this for the past 10 years and he makes a pretty good living doing it. He's done everything from pretending to be a manager of a restaurant to pretending to be a business partner of a desktop support company looking to close more deals. Most of the time he doesn't even say anything. The business owners will put him in an office, place a whole bunch of fake degrees from American schools on the wall and they sign because there is a silver haired white man who fits the stereotypical Western CEO mold. It's not anything new, it's just that more people have caught on and jumped into the game.