> become a technical advisor for their web3 project
That by itself should have been the first red flag. I also heard a lot of these stories recently. I think this might be one of the good use cases of GitHub Codespaces.
ashishb 27 days ago [-]
Not for someone who get 10-20 such requests a year. None till date were such scams.
tdeck 27 days ago [-]
All of them were scams, this was just the first time you were the intended victim.
ashishb 27 days ago [-]
Those were real companies.
The conversation started online and immediately moved in-person.
I was never asked to install anything.
I was not even given code access (without NDA) and I did get paid with equity/money in cases there was a mutual match and we proceeded.
ccimmergreen 27 days ago [-]
Oh god, thanks for the heads up. It's a wonder how many people fell for it, definitely non-zero I reckon. I would hate for this to become a thing on LinkedIn.
croemer 27 days ago [-]
> If it is open-source, you will see a meaningful activity - stars, forks, contributors.
That's not true, I'm quite sure most repos on GitHub have neither many stars, nor forks, nor multiple contributors.
bryanhogan 27 days ago [-]
To add to that, any metrics like these can be quite meaningless since you can just buy them online.
Please never rely on any such "social" metrics.
ashishb 27 days ago [-]
This is just a negative filter to see as a warning sign. It is like walking into a dark alley at night.
Nothing might happen but you should be on the alert.
kunley 27 days ago [-]
Kudos for giving the actual names of the guys.
ashishb 27 days ago [-]
Yeah. Real profile names.
Unlikely that those guys were real. And I did reach out to them for explanation. Only to be blocked by both!
flexagoon 27 days ago [-]
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That by itself should have been the first red flag. I also heard a lot of these stories recently. I think this might be one of the good use cases of GitHub Codespaces.
I was never asked to install anything. I was not even given code access (without NDA) and I did get paid with equity/money in cases there was a mutual match and we proceeded.
That's not true, I'm quite sure most repos on GitHub have neither many stars, nor forks, nor multiple contributors.
Please never rely on any such "social" metrics.
Nothing might happen but you should be on the alert.
Unlikely that those guys were real. And I did reach out to them for explanation. Only to be blocked by both!