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Online Impersonations: No Validation Required
Dr. Neal Krawetz, 2007-04-20

Back when I lived in the Silicon Valley, there was an ongoing employment scam. Prospective employees would show up with perfect resumes and immediately get hired. It would not take long before it was clear that these people did not have the experience stated on their resumes. Within six months they would be fired. However, now they had six months of legitimate experience with real companies that they could reference. Their next jobs might not be as good or glamorous, but it would be much better than if they started with their real resumes.

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Online Impersonations: No Validation Required 2007-04-28
Ichinin
Not all of it is mallicious, some of it is incidental.

Even if you go over your head to try to find a unique name, other people will do the same.

I choosed "Ichi-nin" after the movie "Go-nin" as an alias. I did some searches to make sure noone used it. A few years later, i found some other per...

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