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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 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.

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There 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.

Sure, but you lose the ability to claim ignorance about the farm’s activities when you are receiving other people’s pay checks.

ADP could probably find a lot of these pretty quickly.

If 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.

Sure, but why would they? They’re profiting too.

Good point. I do think that the counterintelligence will be able to pull some strings and get the info though, ultimately.

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