David Ye

Also reported as: David Rose

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, David Ye. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-04-18

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
David Rose alias —
David Ye alias —

David Rose

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-18 · last seen 2025-04-18

Source

  • The researcher publishes two stills of the same person from video calls, captioned David Ye in one post and David Rose in its follow-up, and adds that the operator hosts his laptops with a facilitator in Minnesota and uses the identity of a college graduate in Texas who also stands in to complete identity checks on his behalf for money.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1913273419933823407 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “David Ye / David Rose” · published 2025-04-18 · pulled 2026-08-30

David Ye

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-18 · last seen 2025-04-18

Source

  • The researcher publishes two stills of the same person from video calls, captioned David Ye in one post and David Rose in its follow-up, and adds that the operator hosts his laptops with a facilitator in Minnesota and uses the identity of a college graduate in Texas who also stands in to complete identity checks on his behalf for money.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1913273419933823407 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “David Ye / David Rose” · published 2025-04-18 · pulled 2026-08-30

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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. David Ye as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.