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Exactly. There are at least several different modes these scammers are operating in but eventually it all boils down to some "technical" part in the interviews where the developer is supposed to run some code from an unknown repository.

Nowadays just to be sure, I verify nearly every person's LinkedIn profile's creation date. If the profile has been created less than a few years ago, then most likely our interaction will be over.



I just spin up an EC2 instance for the interview


That's the right approach. On the other hand, do you even want to participate in a scam interview?


Even for legit interviews I don’t want all the random NPM dependencies they’re using running on my computer




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