Faraz Q
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, Faraz Q. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
A still from a video call, published in the cited post, with the name the identity joined under shown in the frame. Unlike a profile picture this is whoever actually appeared on the call, which is the reason the post treats it as evidence.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
1 indicator the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Faraz Q |
alias |
Faraz Q
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Name the researcher publishes for an operator encountered on a video call, shown in the frame as Faraz Q, which is the only form of it published. This is the post that opens the 18 April 2025 conversation described in docs/x-source-backlog.md, and the one that demonstrated X search will not list a post inside a window it is asked for.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1913265115954319641 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
Sources
- x.com/browsercookies/status/1913265115954319641 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)