My colleague, the scammer

我的同事,那个骗子

Today, Explained

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2025-05-20

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North Korea has been sending young, tech-savvy operatives to pose as ordinary American job seekers. Tech reporter Bobbie Johnson investigates the scam. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Further reading: North Korea stole your job by Bobbie Johnson. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Photo of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un by Contributor/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • One of the big challenges of hiring remote workers is you don't really know who you're hiring.

  • Recently, the FBI warned that many companies really don't know who they're hiring.

  • Big American companies like Google and SentinelOne have been tricked by compelling resumes and LinkedIn profiles into hiring North Koreans.

  • Now to the story of spies in the break room.

  • The US,

  • the UK and South Korea have jointly accused North Korea of using a cyber espionage group to steal sensitive and classified data.

  • Ahead on Today Explained,

  • we talked to a reporter about what it's like to sit in on a job interview with a North Korean operative.

  • We tried to keep it as sort of simple as possible.

  • So I was just introduced as someone who was sitting on the call.

  • We didn't want to alert them to, obviously,

  • the fact that I was a journalist, because we didn't want to scare them away.

  • We wanted to see what they had to say.

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