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The supposed problem is being peddled by a company called Socure, who, coincidentally, offer the solution to this problem. There are absolutely "fake" remote wo
by abxyz 1y ago
The supposed problem is being peddled by a company called Socure, who, coincidentally, offer the solution to this problem. There are absolutely "fake" remote workers floating around but to suppose this is some grand security-focused North Korean government conspiracy rather than people from poorer nations trying to get paid is without evidence. "North Korean" job applicants has become a meme, any suspicious looking applicant is being labelled "North Korean" by people who've read articles planted by Socure. If this were a grand North Korean government orchestrated conspiracy we would not see hundreds of job applicants engaging in exactly the same strategy for the same job.
https://www.socure.com/blog/hiring-the-enemy-employment-fraud https://www.socure.com/blog/hiring-the-enemy-employment-frau...
https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- le-mark 1y agoBut when the FBI tells you, you might really have a problem, as happened at one company I was at several years ago.
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- arresin 1y agoOk but plan for a long sleep.
- NitpickLawyer 1y ago> but to suppose this is some grand security-focused North Korean government conspiracy rather than people from poorer nations trying to get paid is without evidence. Uhh... I have news for you: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/dprk-it-workers https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/dprk-it-workers
- hodgesrm 1y agoNot sure why this is downvoted. There’s now abundant evidence it’s happening.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI have a feeling there may be a Nork "flash mob" going on, like when someone says bad stuff about Musk.
- arresin 1y agoNorth Koreax folk
- spydum 1y agoYeah I get your skepticism, but this is really a huge issue in many industries. We are seeing it with an alarmingly high rate. You don't need a technical solution though, as the article points out, some stuff is just process change: In person final interview, gov issued ID checks, initial hardware delivery in office, etc.
- bri3d 1y agoI’ve also seen this pattern at a pervasive rate but I think it’s mostly shady overemployment / outsourcing agencies, with NK as a tag along. It doesn’t matter either way since the countermeasures are the same (besides the stupid meme KJU junk).
- fergie 1y agoMany users here don’t seem to understand that they are reading content marketing.