> I guess you need to remember your lies? Or don't say you are single when you have wife and three kids.
Yeah, that's the odd thing. You'd think that the guy who handled the interviews would have gotten some background on the guy who would actually join the company and adjusted his small-talk story to match. Then again, the low-effort approach "worked", at least to get the guy hired. If the interviewed guy was getting paid just for getting an offer letter, he doesn't care if the worker guy gets found out later.
> Which just makes it sound like a mixup rather than fraud.
I dunno, the mixup scenario sounds pretty farfetched too, perhaps even more so.
Sure. But he had the wrong hair and glasses etc. It feels like one of these things a scammer would think about, assuming the scammers are not incompetent.
Imagine the opposing side write up of this. Note that HR did not confront him with allegations of fraud.
"My boss is staring at me with a confused look. My smalltalk about my family made him leave the room hastely. Lawers are lurking around in the hallway. They starts to question my competence after just one week. Is this place a joke? Did they hire me to fill a fire quota?"
> But he had the wrong hair and glasses etc. It feels like one of these things a scammer would think about, assuming the scammers are not incompetent.
If the scam was just a dude hiring someone off the internet to attend his interview, the guy who interviewed may not have cared about what happened after the interview (or after an offer was given), as he already got paid. So he might not have expended the effort to make himself more like the "real" potential employee.
Yeah, that's the odd thing. You'd think that the guy who handled the interviews would have gotten some background on the guy who would actually join the company and adjusted his small-talk story to match. Then again, the low-effort approach "worked", at least to get the guy hired. If the interviewed guy was getting paid just for getting an offer letter, he doesn't care if the worker guy gets found out later.
> Which just makes it sound like a mixup rather than fraud.
I dunno, the mixup scenario sounds pretty farfetched too, perhaps even more so.