Thomas Ray Cupples

Also reported as: Tom Cupples

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, Thomas Ray Cupples. 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.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-05-28 · last reported 2026-09-18

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

4 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Thomas Ray Cupples alias —
Tom Cupples alias —
thomas.cupples.dev@outlook.com email address —
https://github.com/thomascupples github profile live checked 2026-09-18

Thomas Ray Cupples

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-05-28 · last seen 2026-09-18

Sources

  • The post consists of the single word DPRK and this one image: a LinkedIn profile under the name Thomas (Tom) Ray Cupples, headlined as a senior software engineer in JS, TS, Python, C# and machine learning for healthcare software, located in Yuma, Tennessee, with 80 connections and a University of Tennessee Knoxville entry. A one-word caption is the thinnest assertion anything in this file rests on, and it is recorded as the researcher's, with the text quoted here so a reader can weigh it for themselves.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1927861180217045474 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Thomas Ray Cupples / Tom Cupples” · published 2025-05-28 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Read on 18 September 2026 from GitHub's user search on the persona's name. The account thomascupples was created on 3 July 2026 and filled with thirteen repositories over 6 and 7 July 2026, among them a portfolio, a crypto price-alert tool, a bitcoin wallet API and an arbitrage bot; its profile README introduces Thomas Cupples as a Senior Full Stack Developer and Professional Technical Writer with around 17 years in web2 and web3, gives the outlook.com address as the contact, and embeds statistics images that still point at another developer's account, envoy1084, which is where the README text was copied from. The LinkedIn address was found through Google's index on the same day under the title Thomas Cupples - Senior Software Engineer, the headline in the researcher's May 2025 capture, and the page returned LinkedIn's does-not-exist notice when opened, so it is recorded as removed. A real, long-established Thomas Cupples, a Baltimore senior software engineer whose history runs through two healthcare software companies, is visible in the same search results, and the persona's claimed healthcare specialism reads as borrowed from that history; that person holds the plain thomascupples LinkedIn slug and is not this account. The name is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and the entry records what the account itself states.
    github.com/thomascupples — Chollima Hunter · under “Thomas Ray Cupples” · pulled 2026-09-18

Tom Cupples

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-05-28 · last seen 2025-05-28

Source

  • The post consists of the single word DPRK and this one image: a LinkedIn profile under the name Thomas (Tom) Ray Cupples, headlined as a senior software engineer in JS, TS, Python, C# and machine learning for healthcare software, located in Yuma, Tennessee, with 80 connections and a University of Tennessee Knoxville entry. A one-word caption is the thinnest assertion anything in this file rests on, and it is recorded as the researcher's, with the text quoted here so a reader can weigh it for themselves.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1927861180217045474 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Thomas Ray Cupples / Tom Cupples” · published 2025-05-28 · pulled 2026-08-30

thomas.cupples.dev@outlook.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-09-18 · last seen 2026-09-18

Source

  • Read on 18 September 2026 from GitHub's user search on the persona's name. The account thomascupples was created on 3 July 2026 and filled with thirteen repositories over 6 and 7 July 2026, among them a portfolio, a crypto price-alert tool, a bitcoin wallet API and an arbitrage bot; its profile README introduces Thomas Cupples as a Senior Full Stack Developer and Professional Technical Writer with around 17 years in web2 and web3, gives the outlook.com address as the contact, and embeds statistics images that still point at another developer's account, envoy1084, which is where the README text was copied from. The LinkedIn address was found through Google's index on the same day under the title Thomas Cupples - Senior Software Engineer, the headline in the researcher's May 2025 capture, and the page returned LinkedIn's does-not-exist notice when opened, so it is recorded as removed. A real, long-established Thomas Cupples, a Baltimore senior software engineer whose history runs through two healthcare software companies, is visible in the same search results, and the persona's claimed healthcare specialism reads as borrowed from that history; that person holds the plain thomascupples LinkedIn slug and is not this account. The name is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and the entry records what the account itself states.
    github.com/thomascupples — Chollima Hunter · under “Thomas Ray Cupples” · pulled 2026-09-18

https://github.com/thomascupples

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-09-18

First seen 2026-09-18 · last seen 2026-09-18

Source

  • Read on 18 September 2026 from GitHub's user search on the persona's name. The account thomascupples was created on 3 July 2026 and filled with thirteen repositories over 6 and 7 July 2026, among them a portfolio, a crypto price-alert tool, a bitcoin wallet API and an arbitrage bot; its profile README introduces Thomas Cupples as a Senior Full Stack Developer and Professional Technical Writer with around 17 years in web2 and web3, gives the outlook.com address as the contact, and embeds statistics images that still point at another developer's account, envoy1084, which is where the README text was copied from. The LinkedIn address was found through Google's index on the same day under the title Thomas Cupples - Senior Software Engineer, the headline in the researcher's May 2025 capture, and the page returned LinkedIn's does-not-exist notice when opened, so it is recorded as removed. A real, long-established Thomas Cupples, a Baltimore senior software engineer whose history runs through two healthcare software companies, is visible in the same search results, and the persona's claimed healthcare specialism reads as borrowed from that history; that person holds the plain thomascupples LinkedIn slug and is not this account. The name is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and the entry records what the account itself states.
    github.com/thomascupples — Chollima Hunter · under “Thomas Ray Cupples” · pulled 2026-09-18

Sources

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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. Thomas Ray Cupples as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.