Connor Tumbleson

I'm emailing myself my fake email. Sure enough, the email account of my fake self responds and just tells me, I don't remember exactly, but I think they said I look cute or something, which I think is the strangest thing, because I'm fuming kind of at this point of why someone's using my real name and everything, and they're just joking around.

I'm emailing myself my fake email. Sure enough, the email account of my fake self responds and just tells me, I don't remember exactly, but I think they said I look cute or something, which I think is the strangest thing, because I'm fuming kind of at this point of why someone's using my real name and everything, and they're just joking around.

Of course, I add that screenshot to the blog post, and I think that's what a lot of folks on Reddit and Twitter all like the most, is just that random screenshot of me emailing myself.

Of course, I add that screenshot to the blog post, and I think that's what a lot of folks on Reddit and Twitter all like the most, is just that random screenshot of me emailing myself.

Because then I finished that blog post. And I think that's where the story gets even stranger. Because that blog post just skyrockets to the top of Hacker News within, I think, an hour of me posting it. And my poor little Linode server falls over because it's never had more than like 1,000 hits and it's getting 20,000 at it.

Because then I finished that blog post. And I think that's where the story gets even stranger. Because that blog post just skyrockets to the top of Hacker News within, I think, an hour of me posting it. And my poor little Linode server falls over because it's never had more than like 1,000 hits and it's getting 20,000 at it.

What I didn't really recognize with getting to the top of Hacker News is how many people just offered to join your kind of investigation and search. And then I have people everywhere just DMing me, messaging me of other similar emails and similar kind of slacks and messages, but different names.

What I didn't really recognize with getting to the top of Hacker News is how many people just offered to join your kind of investigation and search. And then I have people everywhere just DMing me, messaging me of other similar emails and similar kind of slacks and messages, but different names.

And I was like, this is a huge story because people are giving me personal examples where they were like an interviewer. Someone was like, I jumped on a call with someone because they wanted to talk through it. And this one guy at a random company was like, we were talking to an interviewee.

And I was like, this is a huge story because people are giving me personal examples where they were like an interviewer. Someone was like, I jumped on a call with someone because they wanted to talk through it. And this one guy at a random company was like, we were talking to an interviewee.

who didn't know anything of why he was on the call or who he was talking to, he was asking us questions of why he was there. I was thinking that's crazy because that rings a bell. If you don't know anything of why you're joining a call except given a document a couple minutes before you're supposed to be there, I could see that happening. Then people

who didn't know anything of why he was on the call or who he was talking to, he was asking us questions of why he was there. I was thinking that's crazy because that rings a bell. If you don't know anything of why you're joining a call except given a document a couple minutes before you're supposed to be there, I could see that happening. Then people

are telling me, oh, I live kind of by where P&D Design is, their headquarters. And they're like, we'll go visit the office for you. And I was like, well, thanks. And it starts piecing together some things.

are telling me, oh, I live kind of by where P&D Design is, their headquarters. And they're like, we'll go visit the office for you. And I was like, well, thanks. And it starts piecing together some things.

I then get a link to Brian Krebs of just all of his investigative research. And someone links me to one of his articles where he was like investigating all these fake LinkedIn profiles of like the upwards of 100, 200,000 of them. I'm thinking this is insane. There's people – all these fake profiles on LinkedIn. I know they're on Upwork." I was like, the story is huge.

I then get a link to Brian Krebs of just all of his investigative research. And someone links me to one of his articles where he was like investigating all these fake LinkedIn profiles of like the upwards of 100, 200,000 of them. I'm thinking this is insane. There's people – all these fake profiles on LinkedIn. I know they're on Upwork." I was like, the story is huge.

I just unfortunately was one person that's a bit more connected than I think of others that may have no idea their information was harvested to make a real looking profile to then use to get a job from.

I just unfortunately was one person that's a bit more connected than I think of others that may have no idea their information was harvested to make a real looking profile to then use to get a job from.

Yeah. I mean, it has to get crazy because at that point you're thinking, let's say that goes successfully and you end up hiring a fake me. We can tell from the Slack conversations,

Yeah. I mean, it has to get crazy because at that point you're thinking, let's say that goes successfully and you end up hiring a fake me. We can tell from the Slack conversations,