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There are many benefits to outsourcing work to out of US, but this is by far the most brilliant of them all. \u00a0A person living in the US, hired a Chinese firm to do his day job while he would be on Reddit and eBay. He would pay the Chinese firm just 1\/5th of his six figure salary and get his work done. \u00a0Interestingly, he wasn\u2019t just working in one company, but several local companies.<\/p>\n

To accomplish this he sent his RSA card via Fedex to the Chinese firm and let them do the work. \u00a0The fraud was uncovered when there was a security breach audit and investigation of his computer revealed invoices from the Chinese company.<\/p>\n

According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the infrastructure company requested the operator\u2019s risk team last year to investigate some anomalous activity on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis organisation had been slowly moving toward a more telecommuting oriented workforce, and they had therefore started to allow their developers to work from home on certain days. In order to accomplish this, they\u2019d set up a fairly standard VPN concentrator approximately two years prior to our receiving their call,\u201d he was\u00a0quoted as saying on an internet security website.<\/a><\/p>\n

The company had discovered the existence of an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang to the employee\u2019s workstation that went back months, Mr Valentine said.<\/p>\n

And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confidential information from the company to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cCentral to the investigation was the employee himself, the person whose credentials had been used to initiate and maintain a VPN connection from China,\u201d said Mr Valentine.<\/p>\n

Further investigation of the employee\u2019s computer had revealed hundreds of PDF documents of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, he added.<\/p>\n

The employee, an \u201cinoffensive and quiet\u201d but talented man versed in several programming languages, \u201cspent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him\u201d, Mr Valentine said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAuthentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cEvidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (\u00a331,270) annually.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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