pipu.cc listing 5189
A profile a reviewer opened and left under review. It matches screening signals of DPRK IT-worker personas; no connection to those operations is stated.
| Status | under review |
|---|---|
| Confidence | high |
| Profile |
linkedin.com/in/adal-kelly/
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| Account created | 2023-08 |
| Network | — |
| Claims | — |
| Line type | N/A — none published |
| Photograph |
NOT A PHOTO
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| Signals | Marketplace CVName mismatchAccount age vs claimPhoto vs name stackmaestro as Sam Sanders |
| Surfaced by | pipu.cc listing 5189 |
| Found by | pipu.cc item_detail.php — full crawl of item_id 3446-5343 |
| First seen | 2026-09-12 |
| Last checked | 2026-09-13 |
Indicators
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EMAIL ADDRESS
adal.kelly@gmail.com - GITHUB PROFILE github.com/stackmaestro
- LINKEDIN PROFILE linkedin.com/in/adal-kelly/
Indexed in the Remote Workers search, each with its own page:
Review
Recovered from pipu.cc listing 5189, one of 1,882 developer resumes uploaded to that marketplace between 26 June and 2 July 2025, each from its own fresh seller account named after the resume's subject. The name the resume is filed under is withheld here. This dataset is as likely to hold a job applicant's harvested CV as an operator's own, item 4590 in this file is a case where the name on one belonged to an uninvolved engineer whose identity had been taken, and the finding is the account rather than the person named on the page. The GitHub account on it, stackmaestro, states the name "Sam Sanders" instead, and was created 2023-08, giving a location of Stockton,CA. Nothing here is corroborated by a cited report or by a shared indicator with any persona this site holds. Read item 4590 in this file before drawing a conclusion from a name mismatch: there, the mismatch was an identity theft and the name on the resume belonged to an uninvolved engineer. A resume in this dataset is as likely to have been harvested from a real job applicant as to have been written by an operator, and telling those apart is the whole of the work still outstanding. The photograph published with the listing was examined on 13 September 2026 and is a candid outdoor photograph of a man leaning on a fence. It carries no camera metadata and no generator provenance, but neither does any other image on pipu, which re-encodes every upload to an 800x800 thumbnail — so nothing follows from the absence. No AI-image detector has been run against it. It does not appear to show a person of the sex the resume's name suggests. Appearance is not identity, and this cuts both ways: an operator dressing a fabricated CV with a borrowed photograph would produce it, and so would somebody bulk-uploading harvested resumes and pairing them with the wrong pictures. The account's own avatar is an illustrated cartoon character at a workstation. There is no face here for an AI-image detector to score, so the AI-generated-photograph heuristic does not apply to this account.