Scene: performance review season at Evil, Inc. Director of Engineering: I'm really concerned about turnover on your team this year. Line manager: Look, I don't set the budgets. I only pay what you give me. Google pays more. What do you #%()#%ing want from me. DoE: #&%ing Google.
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Some people might think I'm speaking in a metaphor here, but mostly no, I think a large portion of all scams by dollar impact are run by professionals at organizations which note-for-note resemble well-operated capitalist businesses. Quarterly targets, payroll, HR managers, etc.
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Scams aren't so different than SaaS companies. You can run them as an artisan in a bathrobe, and that has been done before, but there's a competitive marketplace, prices for leads increase as specialized operators build businesses processes to metabolize them, and pros win.
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In equilibrium you should generally expect artisans on the fringes panning for gold and professionals sitting in air-conditioned offices in what were formerly mining towns.
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What kind of scams are you referring to? Would you be able to name a few?
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Credit card fraud. Bank fraud. Mortgage fraud. IRS refund interception fraud. Impersonate your CEO then direct CFO to wire out $45 million. etc etc, there's a million things that look like this.
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Open the hiring window in certain countries? Or am I misunderstanding?
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Why would a company want to hire someone willing to do unethical work in the first place? Go to the root: teach ethics and personal responsibility in school.
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Interesting argument for doing more emerging market hiring...
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Not just any EM - but EM where the rule of law is relatively low on both an institutional and cultural level.
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