FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs::North Koreans are using fake IDs and learning IT skills to sneak their way into remote American jobs, according to the FBI and Justice departments.

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    2 years ago

    Does no-one check the damn IDs, ffs? It’s a simple matter of typing some numbers into a computer.

    I don’t know about the U.S. but in the UK where I’m from, “illegally hiring a non-UK citizen” would be a criminal offence for the hiring company. How are they going to tax them?

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        2 years ago

        I get cash jobs like manual labor / agriculture, but where are these companies depositing these paychecks?

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      2 years ago

      According to the article, the companies didn’t know that’s what they were doing in this case. They thought they were hiring people living in the US:

      Greenberg said the workers used various techniques to make it look like they were working in the US, including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections.

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    2 years ago

    feels like an austin powers discarded skit… achieving world dominance by pretending to be mike from accounting who does excel like really good

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    2 years ago

    Ok, just so we’re clear… The entire “scheme” was to get jobs working remotely in the US. And then doing those jobs adequately, and collecting a paycheck?

    Truly deprived… I hope they catch every one of these monsters.