John Benrey Diohen Filio
Also reported as: Okawa MasaakiBenjamin Loewe
A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Most of what follows is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, John Benrey Diohen Filio. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
The remainder was read by this site from the account itself and is cited to the page and date it was read.
GitHub profile the cited post publishes, benrey916, AI Full-Stack Developer, linking benrey916.vercel.app and t.me/benrey916, with a portrait. It is the image the identity presented as itself.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
13 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Benjamin Loewe |
alias | |
John Benrey Diohen Filio |
alias | |
Okawa Masaaki |
alias | |
airspeed1e10@gmail.com |
email address | |
frostyalce000@gmail.com |
email address | |
mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com |
email address | |
miracleguy916@gmail.com |
email address | |
okawamasaaki916@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/benrey916 |
github profile | removed |
https://github.com/engineer10223 |
github profile | live |
https://github.com/fathermonkey916 |
github profile | removed |
https://github.com/frostyalce000 |
github profile | live |
https://gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916 |
gitlab account | live |
Benjamin Loewe
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
Source
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Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- okawamasaaki916 -- and asking GitLab whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states a display name of Benjamin Loewe. The login is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916 — Chollima Hunter
John Benrey Diohen Filio
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- okawamasaaki916 -- and asking GitLab whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states a display name of Benjamin Loewe. The login is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/frostyalce000 is account id 177786807, created on 7 August 2024, display name Randy Ganye, bio Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML, Full-Stack, Cloud), location Reisterstown, Maryland. Its profile repository, the one GitHub shows as the account's front page, was created on 15 August 2024 and its first six commits, from 15 August to 2 December 2024, are signed Okawa Masaaki and FatherMonkey916 with okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio; five more on 7 July 2025 are signed with the persona's full name and airspeed.1e10@gmail.com, another address the same researcher gives for it; and two on 13 July 2025, which GitHub attributes to this account itself, also carry the author name John Benrey Diohen Filio, signed with a disposable address, mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com. Across its repositories GitHub's search finds about 200 commits with the persona's three addresses, including miracleguy.916@gmail.com, and in ai-mobile-demo the persona's 147 commits and the account's own 151 fall in the same weeks of June and July 2025. The account signs its own recent commits frosty.alce000@gmail.com.
github.com/frostyalce000 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/engineer10223 is account id 248745798, created on 9 December 2025, with one public repository. All 100 of the commits GitHub's search returns for it are signed okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio. Because GitHub attributes a commit to whichever account has the address registered, this account now also owns the persona's 2024 commits in github.com/frostyalce000's profile repository, made more than a year before it was created: the address was registered to it afterwards.
github.com/engineer10223 — Chollima Hunter
Okawa Masaaki
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
airspeed1e10@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
frostyalce000@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/frostyalce000 is account id 177786807, created on 7 August 2024, display name Randy Ganye, bio Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML, Full-Stack, Cloud), location Reisterstown, Maryland. Its profile repository, the one GitHub shows as the account's front page, was created on 15 August 2024 and its first six commits, from 15 August to 2 December 2024, are signed Okawa Masaaki and FatherMonkey916 with okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio; five more on 7 July 2025 are signed with the persona's full name and airspeed.1e10@gmail.com, another address the same researcher gives for it; and two on 13 July 2025, which GitHub attributes to this account itself, also carry the author name John Benrey Diohen Filio, signed with a disposable address, mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com. Across its repositories GitHub's search finds about 200 commits with the persona's three addresses, including miracleguy.916@gmail.com, and in ai-mobile-demo the persona's 147 commits and the account's own 151 fall in the same weeks of June and July 2025. The account signs its own recent commits frosty.alce000@gmail.com.
github.com/frostyalce000 — Chollima Hunter
mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com
email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED
Source
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Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/frostyalce000 is account id 177786807, created on 7 August 2024, display name Randy Ganye, bio Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML, Full-Stack, Cloud), location Reisterstown, Maryland. Its profile repository, the one GitHub shows as the account's front page, was created on 15 August 2024 and its first six commits, from 15 August to 2 December 2024, are signed Okawa Masaaki and FatherMonkey916 with okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio; five more on 7 July 2025 are signed with the persona's full name and airspeed.1e10@gmail.com, another address the same researcher gives for it; and two on 13 July 2025, which GitHub attributes to this account itself, also carry the author name John Benrey Diohen Filio, signed with a disposable address, mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com. Across its repositories GitHub's search finds about 200 commits with the persona's three addresses, including miracleguy.916@gmail.com, and in ai-mobile-demo the persona's 147 commits and the account's own 151 fall in the same weeks of June and July 2025. The account signs its own recent commits frosty.alce000@gmail.com.
github.com/frostyalce000 — Chollima Hunter
miracleguy916@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
okawamasaaki916@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED
Sources
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/engineer10223 is account id 248745798, created on 9 December 2025, with one public repository. All 100 of the commits GitHub's search returns for it are signed okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio. Because GitHub attributes a commit to whichever account has the address registered, this account now also owns the persona's 2024 commits in github.com/frostyalce000's profile repository, made more than a year before it was created: the address was registered to it afterwards.
github.com/engineer10223 — Chollima Hunter
https://github.com/benrey916
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
removed
Source
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
https://github.com/engineer10223
github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
Source
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Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/engineer10223 is account id 248745798, created on 9 December 2025, with one public repository. All 100 of the commits GitHub's search returns for it are signed okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio. Because GitHub attributes a commit to whichever account has the address registered, this account now also owns the persona's 2024 commits in github.com/frostyalce000's profile repository, made more than a year before it was created: the address was registered to it afterwards.
github.com/engineer10223 — Chollima Hunter
https://github.com/fathermonkey916
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
removed
Source
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The post lists the GitHub accounts under a "GH:" label and the three addresses under a "Gmails:" label, which is what supplies the domain here. It states the profiles carry several different pictures and names, and gives Okawa Masaaki as the name attached to the okawamasaaki916 address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
https://github.com/frostyalce000
github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
Source
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Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the addresses researchers give for this persona, and for the addresses of the accounts already filed under it. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/frostyalce000 is account id 177786807, created on 7 August 2024, display name Randy Ganye, bio Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML, Full-Stack, Cloud), location Reisterstown, Maryland. Its profile repository, the one GitHub shows as the account's front page, was created on 15 August 2024 and its first six commits, from 15 August to 2 December 2024, are signed Okawa Masaaki and FatherMonkey916 with okawamasaaki916@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for John Benrey Diohen Filio; five more on 7 July 2025 are signed with the persona's full name and airspeed.1e10@gmail.com, another address the same researcher gives for it; and two on 13 July 2025, which GitHub attributes to this account itself, also carry the author name John Benrey Diohen Filio, signed with a disposable address, mebogeucroipa-4212@dripzgaming.com. Across its repositories GitHub's search finds about 200 commits with the persona's three addresses, including miracleguy.916@gmail.com, and in ai-mobile-demo the persona's 147 commits and the account's own 151 fall in the same weeks of June and July 2025. The account signs its own recent commits frosty.alce000@gmail.com.
github.com/frostyalce000 — Chollima Hunter
https://gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916
gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
Source
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Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- okawamasaaki916 -- and asking GitLab whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states a display name of Benjamin Loewe. The login is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916 — Chollima Hunter
Sources
- x.com/browsercookies/status/1951103678821310688 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
- gitlab.com/okawamasaaki916 — Chollima Hunter
- github.com/frostyalce000 — Chollima Hunter
- github.com/engineer10223 — Chollima Hunter