Daniel Edwin Smith

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Daniel Edwin Smith. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-09-23

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

4 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Daniel Edwin Smith alias —
daniellinkedin1006@gmail.com email address —
usdevdaniel@gmail.com email address —
+19042569099 phone number —

Daniel Edwin Smith

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2026-09-23 · last seen 2026-09-23

Source

  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Jacksonville, Florida and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox and a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. The name is the identity the operation presents, not the operator's; a real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker.
    haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/daniel+e+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Edwin Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

daniellinkedin1006@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2026-09-23 · last seen 2026-09-23

Source

  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Jacksonville, Florida and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox and a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. The name is the identity the operation presents, not the operator's; a real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker.
    haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/daniel+e+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Edwin Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

usdevdaniel@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2026-09-23 · last seen 2026-09-23

Source

  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Jacksonville, Florida and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox and a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. The name is the identity the operation presents, not the operator's; a real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker.
    haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/daniel+e+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Edwin Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

+19042569099

phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2026-09-23 · last seen 2026-09-23

Line type

Line typeVoIP
CarrierSKYPE COMMUNICATIONS
Rate centreJACKSONVILLE, FL

phonevalidator.com labels the line LANDLINE while naming Skype Communications as the carrier in the same row. The carrier is an interconnected VoIP provider, which is what the classification here follows.

Looked up 2026-09-30 at phonevalidator.com. This is a lookup of the line itself. A VoIP line is not evidence on its own.

Source

  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Jacksonville, Florida and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox and a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. The name is the identity the operation presents, not the operator's; a real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker.
    haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/daniel+e+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Edwin Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

Sources

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Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. Daniel Edwin Smith as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.