Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
Earlier this year, I interviewed this guy who gave me really strange vibes. He would stall for a good 15-20 seconds after each question I asked... and then spit out a perfectly worded answer. I google&#x27;d some specific, peculiar phrases I remembered him saying after the interview and found that the phrases came straight out of places like the Kubernetes documentation, word for word. He was googling my questions and then reading the documentation aloud to me.<p>His resume said he&#x27;d worked for a company called &quot;Data Service Group&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dataservicegroup.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dataservicegroup.com&#x2F;</a>) for the last 5 years or so. Their website contains this sentence: &quot;Over the past decade, our customers succeeded by leveraging Intellectsoft&#x27;s process of building, motivating.&quot;<p>Wait... Intellectsoft isn&#x27;t the name of this company. Did these &quot;Data Service Group&quot; people steal Intellectsoft&#x27;s website?<p>Turns out, if you Google the quoted sentence above, you get TONS of websites for other fake companies that all contain that sentence:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q="Over+the+past+decade,+our+customers+succeeded+by+leveraging+Intellectsoft's+process+of+building,+motivating."" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q="Over+the+past+decade,+o...</a><p>I&#x27;m still not really sure what was going on with that as we politely rejected him and never heard from him again.<p>If you look up the company on LinkedIn, it appears to be made up of hundreds of immigrant DevOps engineers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;data-service-group&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;data-service-group&#x2F;</a>