Comment by belter 11 hours ago
Something is amiss here...Developers make hundreds of applications to even get a reply much less an interview...While apparently, barely English literate North Korean IT workers are getting all the jobs :-) Time to praise the Supreme Leader on LinkedIn ?
Very likely the jobs these North Koreans are getting would not be considered a good job by the devs struggling to find one. As a starter when you plan to phone it in from North Korea you can accept a salary which would not be liveable for a local and stil make it worth it for you.
I have gotten multiple emails from wonky email addresses offering to have me interview for jobs and they will take care of the work if I get hired. fake names tons of money for me. I just have to nail the interview.
My resume is shiny enough and I've gotton hired enough times im a good candidate for this kind of scam.
This feels like a very ham fisted approach for them though. 99% of engineers are going to ignore or not take seriously these kinds of out of the blue offers.
People are single but romance scams exist.
Scammers are good at the scam. They are good at telling the right lies, they often work in teams (lead finders, closers, and everything in between), use automation where appropriate, etc.
A single dev might have trouble cracking the lead finding code, the resume code, the interview code, etc while and avoiding telling any lies that will get then fired 3 weeks into the job. But a team who all treat the application process as a full time job? It's a lot easier.
Also when a dev gets good at finding a job, they stop looking. Scammers get good at it and then keep getting better.