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> It's not a matter of hiding. Companies do not want to know.

If a company doesn't want to know you shouldn't be doing business with that company.

Sure some of these cases are John Doe wanting to live as a secret expat but not all.

In a remote world, you have to know. There are numerous fake employee scams that have a number of different outcomes that present exactly in this manner.

1) Steal or forge a decent looking identity. 2) Have a face that interviews and attends some of the early weeks on camera then slides back to off camera 3) Profit whether it's theft or double-dipping or code farms

This isn't a pretend scenario. It's active.

Depending on your vertical and internal zero trust architecture a breach of this nature could be devastating.

So sure, maybe that employee is lying about their location to soak a big salary under a cheap cost of living but maybe they are something much darker and you can't leave that stone unturned.




"If a company doesn't want to know you shouldn't be doing business with that company."

It's true of literally everyone you do business with, so good luck with that.


Not true of mine or any operations team I have run or been a part of so take your throwaway nihilism elsewhere son.




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