Yeah, that's the odd thing. You'd think that the guy who handled the interviews would have gotten some background on the guy who would actually join the company and adjusted his small-talk story to match. Then again, the low-effort approach "worked", at least to get the guy hired. If the interviewed guy was getting paid just for getting an offer letter, he doesn't care if the worker guy gets found out later.

> Which just makes it sound like a mixup rather than fraud.

I dunno, the mixup scenario sounds pretty farfetched too, perhaps even more so.