I recently got one of those emails, interestingly leading with "I came across your profile on Hacker News".

Once I understood the proposal, I thought this would be horror job cognitive dissonance-wise. So unethical.

I also had a conspiracy theory – perhaps the "we can't pass interviews, so you do the interviews, and we do the job, win-win" is just a cover for the real play – shady anonymous orgs getting access to infrastructure and data of various western businesses, using you as a facade.