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The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
The Register (UK) ^ | Tue 29 Apr 2025 | Iain Thomson

Posted on 04/30/2025 8:37:33 AM PDT by Salman

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They're masking IPs, exporting laptop farms to America so they can connect into those machines and appear to be working from the USA, and they are using AI – but there's a question during job interviews that never fails to catch them out and forces them to drop out of the recruitment process.

"My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly, because it's not worth it to say something negative about that," he told a panel session at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Monday.

Meyers explained the North Koreans will use generative AI to develop bulk batches of LinkedIn profiles and applications for remote work jobs that appeal to Western companies. During an interview, multiple teams will work on the technical challenges that are part of the interview while the "front man" handles the physical side of the interview, although sometimes rather ineptly.

"One of the things that we've noted is that you'll have a person in Poland applying with a very complicated name," he recounted, "and then when you get them on Zoom calls it's a military age male Asian who can't pronounce it." But it works enough that quite a few score the job and millions of dollars are being funneled back to North Korea via this route.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: asia; fraud; northkorea; spying; tech

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Emphasis added to highlight the question.

Also, a good comment thread at the link.

1 posted on 04/30/2025 8:37:33 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Maybe a question about his unit proportions. “Is it twue that he is berry small ding dong?”


2 posted on 04/30/2025 8:39:54 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Salman

“Kim Jong Un so fat, they have to let out shower curtain!”


3 posted on 04/30/2025 8:42:09 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Salman

This is “Famous Cholima”. A years-long struggle for HR and IT. As noted in the article, we’re getting better at weeding them out early. This happens more than people realize and costs billions in pilfered intellectual property and compromised systems. Just when you thought viruses and malware were enough, the humans become the hack.


4 posted on 04/30/2025 8:56:38 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: Salman

“Why is dear leader so fat while the rest of NOrth Koreans starve?”


5 posted on 04/30/2025 8:59:04 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Salman

If they really are from Poland ask them to pronounce “Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz”.


6 posted on 04/30/2025 9:01:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

I remember seeing a TV show on North Korean computer users. First thing I noticed is the laptop computers were DELL COMPUTERS.


7 posted on 04/30/2025 9:03:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Salman

From the comment section...
“ And you’re unwilling to invest a couple of grand at that final interview stage as part of your due diligence? “

HR managers are generally liberal idiot DEI hires. I had once went for an introductory interview where the HR recruiter demanded I had experience in a certain engineering software that was longer than the software had been in existence.


8 posted on 04/30/2025 9:03:18 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Salman
If you get a Chinese scammer mention something about the Tienanmen massacre. They don't want to get in trouble so they will hang up .
9 posted on 04/30/2025 9:06:45 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Salman

‘How fat is Kim Jong Un?’

Hes got more Chins than a Hong Kong phone book.

So fat, I had to take a train and two buses just to get on the his good side.

Is so fat, when a school bus hit him he said “Who threw that twinkie?”

So fat, when he gets on the scale it says “to be continued.”

So fat, he goes to a resturant, looks at the menu and says “okay!”


10 posted on 04/30/2025 9:42:23 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Salman

That’s kind of silly. They could just say, “not fat at all in my opinion”.


11 posted on 04/30/2025 10:13:18 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: Salman

bkmk


12 posted on 04/30/2025 10:14:23 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Salman

I love it.


13 posted on 04/30/2025 10:18:40 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Codeflier
They could just say, “not fat at all in my opinion”.

Which would be a good enough "tell" for me, as to who they are. Because he is FAT.

14 posted on 04/30/2025 10:19:36 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: lowbridge

Why is it that Kim Jong Un appears to be the ONLY fat person in North Korea?


15 posted on 04/30/2025 11:17:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Salman

“One of the things that we’ve noted is that you’ll have a person in Poland applying with a very complicated name,” he recounted, “and then when you get them on Zoom calls it’s a military age male Asian who can’t pronounce it.”

Similar to Nazis trying to pronounce “Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz”.


16 posted on 04/30/2025 12:16:03 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: FateAmenableToChange

A classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U


17 posted on 04/30/2025 12:18:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

LOL


18 posted on 04/30/2025 12:29:04 PM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: dfwgator

I didn’t see your post about poor Grzegorz before I posted. My Polish friends are impressed that I can pronounce his first name but even after years of study the rest of the name as well as where he’s from are just an absolute joke. They’ve told me that that part of Poland has a dialect not shared by most of the rest of Poland, and that partisans in WWII really did use phrases from that part of Poland to identify Nazi spies. Other Poles can pronounce those phrases with only a little difficulty, no one who doesn’t speak Polish natively will be able to.

And that’s such a good movie.


19 posted on 04/30/2025 2:19:26 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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