However you feel about hybrid or remote working, it's clear that the option to work from home offers many more opportunities for folks both near and far, but the US Department of Justice has recently shared a bizarre story that highlights a rarely seen dark side.
According to a recent press release from , a woman from Arizona has been [[link]] imprisoned for her part in facilitating a remote work scam that generated "more than $17 million in illicit revenue" for North Korea (via ). Back in February of this year, Christina Chapman pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments," resulting in an eight year prison sentence.
Using stolen identities and 90 now seized laptops, Chapman reportedly assisted North Koreans in posing as U.S. citizens in order to net high-paying, remote IT jobs at "309 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 corporations". Assistant Director Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division asserts this was done in a [[link]] bid to siphon "millions of dollars for [North Korea's] nuclear weapons program." I told you it was bizarre.
As for Chapman's own motivation, she was originally approached over LinkedIn to “be the US face” of an overseas remote work company back in March [[link]] 2020—as if I needed another good reason to ignore LinkedIn messages. allege she was looking after her ailing mother at the time, and that "Ms. Chapman did not fully understand the illegality of what she was being asked to do. What she did understand was that—for the first time in her life—she was financially stable and able to provide for her mother’s needs."
Chapman herself has since apologised for her actions in a letter to the court. She also took the opportunity to thank the FBI for arresting her because she'd been "trying to get away from the guys that I was working with for awhile [sic] and I wasn’t really sure how to do it.”

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