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Chapman also helped the foreign fraudsters steal the identities of more than 70 US nationals, then use those identities to apply for remote IT jobs, according t
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
Chapman also helped the foreign fraudsters steal the identities of more than 70 US nationals, then use those identities to apply for remote IT jobs, according to the Feds.
Those who successfully obtained employment as part of the scam then received payroll checks at Chapman's home with direct deposits sent to her US bank accounts before ultimately being laundered and funneled to North Korea…
So, bit more involved than just running a VPN/proxy service.
- ty6853 2y agoThere was probably an army of NK workers to do the lifting. By design an American would have had responsibilities limited to signing the right dotted lines and being a pretty white face at the bank.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoSure, but you lose the ability to claim ignorance about the farm’s activities when you are receiving other people’s pay checks.
- readthenotes1 2y ago[flagged]
- obitsten 2y ago[dead]
- danielheath 2y agoIt's not racist to point out that a white person in the US is far less likely to attract scrutiny from law enforcement, and that's a useful - even qualifying - trait for certain roles in a criminal enterprise.
- jollyllama 2y agoADP could probably find a lot of these pretty quickly.
- brendang_sd 2y agoIf you go asking ADP for this kind of information, they will refuse citing the privacy of the workers. We tried it at a previous company I worked at.
- bwoj 2y agoSure, but why would they? They’re profiting too.
- jollyllama 1y agoGood point. I do think that the counterintelligence will be able to pull some strings and get the info though, ultimately.