Man pays Chinese company one fifth of his salary to do his job for him
A US employee is said to have outsourced his job to China.
A security check on a company revealed that a member of staff had been paying a fifth of his six-figure salary to a firm in Shenyang to do his job for him, reports BBC News.
The software developer spent his work day surfing the web, YouTube and eBay.
Andrew Valentine of operator Verizon said that the scam came to light when the US company asked Verizon for an audit after a suspected security breach and asked the risk team to investigate some irregular activity on its VPN logs.
An active VPN connection was found from Shenyang to the employee’s computer and Verizon was called to look into what was thought to be malware used to share confidential information with China.
The employee’s computer contained hundreds of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, it has been reported.
Valentine said: “Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday.
“Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area.
“It looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 annually.”