Daniel Gene 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 Gene Smith. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-09-23

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

Indicator	Type	Account status
`Daniel Gene Smith`	alias	—
`danielsmith0375@gmail.com`	email address	—
`+12194763075`	phone number	—

`Daniel Gene 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 Valparaiso, Indiana and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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+d+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Gene Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

`danielsmith0375@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 Valparaiso, Indiana and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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+d+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Gene Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

`+12194763075`

phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

Line type

Line type	VoIP
Carrier	SKYPE COMMUNICATIONS
Rate centre	VALPARAISO, IN

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 Valparaiso, Indiana and the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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+d+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Gene Smith” · pulled 2026-09-23

Sources

haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/daniel+d+smith — Hayden McKenzie · under “Daniel Gene Smith” · published 2026-09-23 · pulled 2026-09-23

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