Yeah, I have to imagine they might be using a group account on Upwork and then misrepresenting the coder as a part of their team, but I don’t know enough about how Upwork works.

I posted about this blog post on Twitter and was directed a Reddit post [1] showing how little Upwork seems to care about fake reviews and stolen work product, so it appears Upwork has a history of ignoring fraud, regardless of what their terms say.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/xavntw/freelan...

Scammer can open a bank account using a fake ID for Connor. So they hire the real Connor but money goes to a foreign country, to an account owned by the imposter.

> Even UpWork requires government ID verification.

I dont think it will be too difficult for a scammer to setup a bank account with a false name.