I heard a story about this happening at an Indian subsidiary of an American company, the person interviewed by the US manager was not the person that actually took the role ! It was discovered a few months in as the quality was not as expected (the person was actually a developer but not nearly as good as the one that was interviewed, he hired the interviewed person to pass the interview).
It’s also way more obvious and personal when it happens, and it’s a lot easier to actually physically arrest someone if it gets really weird or out of hand, not that it was common for that to happen.
I think we’re seeing the birth of a new industry, the equivalent of Nigerian email scams, but with job interviews.
Exciting!