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FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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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.
I get cash jobs like manual labor / agriculture, but where are these companies depositing these paychecks?
Contracting firms which subcontract out.