Justin Schmid

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, Justin Schmid. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-04-18

Identifiers attributed to this persona

1 indicator the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.

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Justin Schmid alias —

Justin Schmid

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

Source

  • Name the researcher publishes for an operator it says sometimes uses a German passport, with a cropped identity photograph attached. The passport is not reproduced here.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1913291755900027194 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Justin Schmid” · 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. Justin Schmid as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.