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8. Some may have been intel fronts, but most were just shady scams

Fri Apr 24, 2026, 06:32 PM

11 hrs ago

Most of these were just a bunch of scammers from India trying to take advantage of how lax it was then. H1Bs weren’t as hard to get sponsored for back then.

These firms would usually be owned by an American (green card holder or citizen). These “consulting” firms would then overbid and underdeliver on IT and engineering projects. It mostly consolidated into the larger WITCH (acronym of several large Indian companies), which are bad enough, but the quality then was arguably even worse with these smaller companies.

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