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frankfrank13
Honestly insane if this ends up being true. Companies of course do research on their competitors, often leaning on employees who have left, current customers, investors, etc. But how [if true] Deel RECRUITED A SPY is so far beyond what anyone in 2025 should deem normal.
mattzito
If you have a few minutes, reading the full complaint is worth it – the blog posts and the articles don't really do the whole story justice.
There is extremely damning evidence that this unnamed individual ("D.S.") in Ireland was acting at the behest of Deel senior leadership, including:
– the COO of deel reached out to a rippling payroll manager on linkedin to recruit them. The rippling employee didn't respond. Shortly thereafter, D.S. pulled up that employees personnel record in the HR system that has their unlisted phone number. Shortly after THAT, the COO of deel reached back out to that employee via WhatsApp and that phone number.
– The information was about to publish a story about Deel potentially violating sanctions. New information in the article was that at least one of the customers involved was a company called "tinybird". No one at rippling was aware that this company even existed, but a week BEFORE the article came out, but after the reporter had been asking questions of Deel, D.S. started searching Slack for "tinybird" (and there were no other searches of "tinybird" across the whole company)
– Around the same time, the reporter for the information reached out to rippling and had internal Rippling slack messages about potential similar sanctions violations. A short time before that happened, D.S. was suddenly searching for "russia", "sanctions", "iran", etc.
– There was an email between D.S. and the ceo of Deel, along with an introduction to someone from the family VC fund.
– And then, of course, the honeypot – a fake channel, fake chats from the Rippling CRO, but the chats had real stories that former Deel employees had alleged. Email sent to only the CEO of Deel, his dad/chairman of the board, and their GC. Just a short time later, D.S. was searching for the fake channel, trying to find it, adn trying to find these chat messages.
I'm sure the CEO will try to have plausible deniability, that it was someone else in his org that he delegated investigating these things to, he had no idea, etc. But if they can get D.S. to crack and share the details of what happened, I think it will be tough to toe that line.
ridruejo
As the old saying goes … “The fact that you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out there to get you”
gukov
Rippling blog post: https://www.rippling.com/blog/lawsuit-alleges-12-billion-uni…
americandev
All parties involved are dedicated to the undercutting of American tech workers.
Of course this kind of work will bring in sleazy characters. US companies should understand that scamming and scheming like this is common in the developing world, and this is the kind of stuff they will face when they try to save a few dollars by outsourcing their tech.