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>but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI.

After I read this article, I thought this whole incident is fabricated and created as a way to go viral on tech sites. One immediate red flag was: why would someone go to these lengths to hack a freelancer who's clearly not rich and doesn't have millions in his cryptowallet. And how did they know he used Windows? Many devs don't.

Ah, you might say, maybe he is just one of the 100 victims. Maybe but we'd hear from them by now. There's no one else on X claiming to have been contacted by them.

Anyway, I'm highly skeptical of this whole incident. I could be wrong though :)



It's a thing. Google "fake job interview crypto hacks".

It's been a thing for a while. I saw the title, was like "Hmm, Hacker News is actually late to the party for once".

I think I first heard about it on Coffeezilla video or something.




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