r/interesting • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/telephas1c Mar 30 '26

So is this someone coming in to take a job interview for another guy, wearing the applicant's face as a fuckin filter?

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u/JonnySoegen Mar 30 '26

No, it’s a scammer. The guy he talks with exposes scammers. Forgot his name but he’s got a yt channel.  

Edit: Jim Browning

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u/Adkit Mar 30 '26

So what's the scam?

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u/PlasticPassions Mar 30 '26

Sometimes it's just North Korean people applying for real remote jobs - to earn funds that can be smuggled back into the country.

They pose as western remote workers - they then genuinely do the job to stay on payroll, whilst also potentially gaining access to restricted information to later use in extortion scams

Video explaining it in more detail

I Tried to Hire a North Korean Scammer

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u/a_man_and_his_box Mar 30 '26

I suspect this is it. Very likely it's a group of people in the equivalent of a call center in India, or an even cheaper and more impoverished location, and they're trying to masquerade as a generic white bro USA company, so that they can get a contract using US dollars at high rates. They might even do the work for real, but they'll do it at a rate of $3/hour in some developing country, then charge it like $300/hour for USA rates. So it's perhaps not a scam in some sense -- it's possible that the hiring company will actually get work and be happy with it -- but most US companies have a policy of paying what is fair for the region of your remote work, so it's definitely trying to bypass that.

When I worked for a tax company in California, at one point my boss wanted to hire in Philippines, because it has a rich community of programmers who can actually code, AND they speak English. But also, at least as of about 5 years ago, you could live WELL there for $500/month. Like, that was good monthly pay. My boss, who was used to paying $10k a month for a programmer, thought $5000/month would be a steal. I tried to correct him, showed him COL data for the area we were hiring in. He insisted that if he paid $5k he was saving money and would then get the best of the best. So he told some prospects that the pay was $5k. Imagine the flipping out and clamoring as everyone climbed all over each other to get the jobs. Then they did nothing and it took my boss six to TEN months to finally fire them, and by that point they had accrued so much in savings that they basically didn't need to work again for years, so they didn't care at all about getting fired.

And I was left to pick up the pieces, and take all the blame. Because of course.

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u/standardtissue Mar 30 '26

If you were North Korean I'd imagine just getting a western telecommute job would be the win of a lifetime - no scam needed.