

This wasn't a legal matter, but a business matter.

I'm surprised he accepted geolocation! I also later confirmed IP addresses via Firebase deployments in the same region.ĮDIT: since a lot of people are commenting saying that this is fine by IRS laws of subcontracting etc I should clarify:ġ. I did end up catching him- the app he was working on enabled geolocation and he went from Chatanooga, Tennessee to Romania in an hour. I have regretted not having fast enough fingers since then and wish I had this. The smoking gun was that the presumed guy behind the scenes sent a PayPal invoice via his Slack account and immediately deleted it. He did great work for a few weeks and then I suspected him of outsourcing his persona to someone else. I hired a contractor on Upwork once and he worked alongside us in our Slack workspace.
