I have been getting these since early 2023, still, most of them are simple to spot, the other side typically has video turned off, asks a bit about your experience and just nods without digging, they are in a hurry to send you their coding challenge.

In one of these many calls I got to see the face from the other side but lasted a few seconds only. Then he claimed that internet was bad and suggested we continued without video.

In this case they claim it was a 2 rounds interview with video turned on to simulate a more normal recruiting process.

Of course all of us are prone to get caught with the shield off but what surprises me is that the targeted dev took the challenge in the device from work.