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Re:FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote te... by walrus01 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:42AM (#31917483)
There is a thriving ecosystem of scams that uses United States residents as money mules, with the ability to open bank accounts, for ACH deposit, social security numbers, etc.

You might be significantly underestimating the number of extremely gullible people out there.

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Re:FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote te... by phibz on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:24AM (#31966352)
The fact that stealing people's identity is relatively easy, and a major problem is tangential to my statement:

taking a job under someone else's identity is illegal in the US and claiming you were deep faked if caught isn't likely to work.

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