How Did an Unknown Ghostwriter Become Part of an Identity Theft Crime?
A warning to freelancers
5 min readOct 6, 2021
Taylor (not their real name) received an email indicating someone sent them a message on LinkedIn. “I hadn’t logged onto LinkedIn in a while,” Taylor told me. “When I checked it out, it was someone requesting my services as a ghostwriter.” Taylor and I began to use LinkedIn during the lockdown to…