Imagine working at a company for years and never realizing that half your coworkers don’t exist. No awkward small talk, no stolen lunches from the fridge—just mysteriously perfect attendance records. That’s exactly what happened in Shanghai, where one HR manager pulled off the ultimate office ghosting scam, creating 22 fake employees and pocketing their salaries for eight years. It was all going smoothly until someone finally noticed that “Xiao Sun” had been showing up every day… without ever actually showing up.
HR Manager Defrauds Company Of $2.2 Million by Making Up Employees and Collecting Their Paychecks