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.
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?
A good chunk of the American economy is dependent on companies not checking the legal status of employees.
Another good way to fuck over the legitimate workers
I get cash jobs like manual labor / agriculture, but where are these companies depositing these paychecks?
Contracting firms which subcontract out.
From the summary posted below, it seems the US companies are outsourcing to China and Russia, and North Koreans living in those countries are getting these jobs. I’m guessing a part of whatever they send home is being taken, probably without their consent, by the NK government for weapon manufacturing.
It would be hard for a US company to verify if a document presented as a Chinese or Russian ID is actually from those countries or a forgery. You could ask for a passport, but they could always say they don’t have one.
Wouldn’t the ID need to be associated with a verifiable green card? (Again, not an expert in US employment)
Only if they worked physically in the US. these people work offshore for US companies.
Who pays them?
I’m guessing here but based on how I’ve done international contracts… The US-based company pays the not us-based company, and that not US-based company pays the employees. The not US-based company is responsible for ensuring that the employee can legally work in the country that they are physically in. And since that country is not America, they don’t need an American green card.
All perfectly legal (unless sanctions forbid it).
But in that case they wouldn’t need any fake IDs.
feels like an austin powers discarded skit… achieving world dominance by pretending to be mike from accounting who does excel like really good
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.
US companies should not be able to outsource labor overseas.
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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