https://t.me/kanbei0605

https://t.me/kanbei0605 is a Telegram account that one published source reports in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Nisos. The report is dated 2025-03-27.

The reporting files it under the persona Karl Chong, alongside 11 other identifiers attributed to the same identity. The persona page shows them together with any accounts, photographs and CV recorded under that name. A persona name is the one an account presented under, and may belong to an uninvolved person whose identity was taken.

telegram account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-11-08

First seen 2025-03-27 · last seen 2025-03-27

Source

  • Nisos names this persona as one a likely DPRK IT worker used to obtain remote work in the United States, and publishes it beside three others it ties to the same contact details. The GitHub account superredstar, the address kanbei0605@gmail.com and the four freelance-platform profiles are in the report's text; the GitHub accounts kanbei0605 and code-0605 and the Telegram handle kanbei0605 are read from its network map, which draws them as direct connections to this persona. The report states that superredstar built the persona's resume website in April 2022, that the persona claims to be from Singapore and to have worked remotely for Mongrov Inc since May 2023, that its freelancer profiles place it in the United States and Turkey, that its resumes list Overflow as an employer and the Singapore University of Technology and Design as its school, and that its employment history matches that of a separate persona, Naoyuki Tanaka, which Nisos links to Enver Studio. Nisos also reports that the persona's photograph is a stock image sold on several stock-photography sites.
    nisos.com/research/dprk-it-worker-scam-mitigation/ — Nisos · under “Karl Chong” · published 2025-03-27 · pulled 2026-09-18

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Same persona record: Karl Chong

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 11 are shown.

All 11 on the Karl Chong page

Cited by the same report: nisos.com/research/dprk-it-worker-scam-mitigation/

Nisos lists 13 other indicators in this source. 4 are shown, chosen across types.

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