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Jobs that are too good to be true
Recently, I came across a job posting which said something along the lines of: remote part-time work, $1K to $2K, located in Europe or America, collaborative work etc.
Being curious, I responded expecting some sort of a part time development opportunity. But what I heard back was a little bit different 😃
Basically, I was told that the person who posted the job — let’s call them OP — was representing a group of people who had been finding remote development work on places like Upwork, but that they were being discriminated against by potential employers because of their geographic location. So OP wanted to find people in Europe and America who would allow OP to use their profile to respond to jobs and get new jobs as if OP (and his group) were based in Europe or America.
That part might (or might not) be OK depending on how you look at it. I can understand the discrimination since I’ve seen that in action, but again, pretending to be from somewhere where you aren’t also doesn’t solve the problem and seems a bit dishonest. But the rest of the job requirements was even stranger ….
You had to have your computer on at all times and allow OP to access your computer via a remote access program such as TeamViewer so that OP could respond to jobs as you. Their reason…
