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Arizona woman pleads guilty in $17M North Korean IT scam (www.theregister.com)
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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

According to court documents, Chapman ran a laptop farm out of her home from October 2020 to October 2023. During this time she hosted computers for overseas IT workers — who were posing as American citizens and residents — to ensure the devices had local IP addresses, making them appear to be in the US.

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

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