My company accidently employed on for about 3 days until we realized what was happening and cut them loose.
I recognize this was likely sourced from a PR agency working for a security product meant for global employee verification but I can attest they are addressing a real problem.
How did you figure out what was going on?
Lots of red flags in the paperwork combined with strange behavior and him accidentally connecting one time without a VPN.
We're a startup so I don't think the end goal was to scam us per se but more to get money or more likely build credibility.
They were probably "severely punished" for the slip up of not using their VPN...