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He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative (www.nbcnews.com)
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At least 10 alleged U.S.-based facilitators have been federally charged, including one active-duty member of the U.S. Army, for their alleged roles in hosting laptop farms, laundering payments and moving proceeds through shell companies. At least six other alleged U.S. facilitators have been identified in court documents but not named.

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

i can even kind of think of how to manage something like that, it would just work on only with 100% remote work and would also require quite a lot of cooperation, competency and trust from the clients. and it would still require you to "acquire the goods", as in get a job. But then you could share it with other people. So in the end multiple people would be pretending to be one person, but since the load is shared each could do multiple different "persons".

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I was originally imagining North Korea as being a basic job recruiter that could actually get you into interviews for a real job, but just black market because doing anything with North Korea is illegal.

But the other way they would just be normal contractors (still black market or course), which is the way most big companies are going anyway.

Of course, I really just want to know how they keep getting hired for jobs when I can't even get a response or an interview.