From Gawker: By now you may have heard the story of an
American software developer who scammed several companies by forwarding a
fraction of his six-figure salary to a Chinese company that was doing his work
for him while he sat in his office surfing Reddit and watching cat videos.
The unidentified man, nicknamed "Developer Bob,"
was caught by a team of misconduct investigators at Verizon Enterprise
Solutions that was asked by one of Bob's employers to review "anomalous
activity" in its records — namely, the remote login of an unknown user
from Shenyang , China
In order to access the company's data, an employee would
need to use a physical key card, so the fact that someone in China was using Bob's credentials while he was
sat in his US
office raised a natural suspicion. Sure
enough, the Verizon investigation turned up hundreds of invoices sent to Bob
from a contractor in Shenyang ,
and the rest of the pieces soon fell into place.
Bob, a model employee by all accounts, was paying the
Chinese firm $50,000 out of a salary of several hundred thousand dollars across
multiple companies to code on his behalf.
Meanwhile, Bob would spend his day on online shopping and Facebook
status updates.
Read all about it at http://gawker.com/outsourcing/
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