The article says he was remotely controlling a company laptop located in Arizona. A woman located in AZ was facilitating the NK workers, but she was recently charged with the fraud.
There was a scam going where they would offer for someone to apply for a role and use that good candidates clean information to get it v they would do the work and split the pay with the person who’s info they used.
In exchange that person would get “job experience”, the perks of WFH, and the ability to hold down more than one of these figurehead jobs simultaneously.
I’m kind of surprised the latency was that low. Unless the NK “employee” was spoofing being in SK or something.
The article says he was remotely controlling a company laptop located in Arizona. A woman located in AZ was facilitating the NK workers, but she was recently charged with the fraud.
Hong Kong to Los Angeles is around 70ms latency (140ms round trip) so I’m not too surprised.
How was he hired 🤯 ? It’s a skill
There was a scam going where they would offer for someone to apply for a role and use that good candidates clean information to get it v they would do the work and split the pay with the person who’s info they used.
In exchange that person would get “job experience”, the perks of WFH, and the ability to hold down more than one of these figurehead jobs simultaneously.
Why didn’t my guidance counselor tell me this was an option it sounds perfect for me!
Probably because it gets you in trouble with the feds.
Probably worked for next to no pay.