Another person shared, “One time, when I was hiring for a temporary project, we had someone show up on a Zoom call and move their mouth silently as someone spoke from behind them. Faked résumés are also rampant. At this point, I can pretty much immediately point out the sentences that are going to return five different résumés if I paste it into Google.”
And there were even more tales of impostor new hires lip-syncing for their lives, like this one: “Happened to my team. A guy interviewed well and showed up on camera to meetings for the first week or so.
But after that, he stopped showing up on camera, the audio quality went down, and he sounded different. We asked him repeatedly to turn on his camera, but he always had ‘technical issues.’ Eventually, the tech lead was able to get him on camera, and the original guy showed up. But she said it was obvious that the dude on camera was lip-syncing with the person speaking, as the audio and video didn’t match up. The smoking gun was when the person speaking said something under his breath to the guy on video and the lips of the video guy didn’t move.”
