7-12. Several years ago, Lockheed Martin Corp. sued the Boeing Corp., accusing it of using Lockheed’s trade secrets to help win a multibilliondollar government contract. Among other things, Lockheed claimed that Boeing had obtained those trade secrets from a former Lockheed employee who switched to Boeing.101 But of the methods companies use to commit corporate espionage, one writer says that hiring away the competitor’s employees is just the most obvious method companies use. One writer says,

“One of the more unusual scams—sometimes referred to as ‘help wanted’—uses a person posing as a corporate headhunter who approaches an employee of the target company with a potentially lucrative job offer. During the interview, the employee is quizzed about his responsibilities, accomplishments, and current projects.

The goal is to extract information without the employee realizing there is no job.”102 Assume you own a small high-tech company.

What would you do (in terms of employee training, or a letter from you, for instance) to try to minimize the chance that one of your employees will fall into that kind of a trap? Also, compile a list of 10 questions that you think such a corporate spy might ask one of your employees.