Someone is pretending to be me
I&#x27;m a US-based accountant who is currently interviewing for his first job in software and I was approached by someone on on LinkedIn about an opportunity. Seemed fishy, but figured I could risk 15 minutes. The person set up a meeting between me and a Taiwanese Developer for this exact thing. He said he had 7 years experience and had a contract drafted for he and I to become &quot;business partner&quot; where I would take the meetings and he would do the work for a 30&#x2F;70 split. I told him, morals aside, that I didn&#x27;t have the credentials to get into the jobs he would want and pointed out numerous obvious issues like in-person coding, etc.. He said he was ready to make a fake LinkedIn and had this whole operation planned out.<p>Seems to me like there is a whole operation around this business model of exploiting US developer salaries and the morality of a few Americans willing to try and make a dollar for free. Honestly more disappointed in the people accepting shady deals like this than the ones offering them.