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I wonder what other creative ways there are to expose North Korean employees. That fat question is hilarious but I bet there’s even more hilarious possible questions.



Look at their LinkedIn profile. All the scammers had non-existent profiles in their resumes.

Call their phone number. All the scammers had non-working phone numbers in their resumes.

I wrote an article about this based on my experience: https://koliber.com/articles/how-to-avoid-hiring-a-north-kor...


Easy to make a legit-looking LinkedIn profile. Start as a recruiter with unbelievable code-in-your-pajamas job openings, connect to 500 developers, then suddenly change to a developer. And phone farms aren't much of a stretch from laptop farms.


Yet they don’t do it.


they don’t need too yet. plenty of suckers still.


"Please read me the imdb plot synopsis of the film The Interview."




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