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Re:North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim by simonbw on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:24PM (#47428575)
The point is that there are legit American citizens who are in on the con. They have real SSNs and an actual presence in the US. They run proxy servers out of their house to make it seem like that's where their web traffic is coming from. From the company's perspective, everything seems like a regular remote employee.
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Re:North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim by ryandrake on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:11PM (#47429225)
A proxy server can't fool an in-person interview. Totally bizarre how in-person interviews have fallen out of fashion, now that they're needed the most.
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Re:North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim by lelandfe on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:58PM (#47430671)
I actually have first hand experience with this! One person came for the on site interview, and a different and much worse dev did the remote work once hired. This was over a decade ago now.
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Re:North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim by alephnerd on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:31PM (#47428679)
> The point is that there are legit American citizens who are in on the con...

For example - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-woman-sentenced-17m-i...

And another one ironically by a Ukrainian national who is ethnic Ukrainian and not Donbas Russian - https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/ukrainian-national-senten...

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Re:North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim by potatoman22 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:46PM (#47428878)
Bloomberg made a good video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gjnrMg9iSo
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