Trey Ruiz

Also reported as: Trey R.

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, Trey Ruiz. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-04-20

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Trey R. alias —
Trey Ruiz alias —

Trey R.

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-20 · last seen 2025-04-20

Source

  • Second newly created LinkedIn profile in the same post, shown as Trey R., .NET Full Stack Developer, Austin, Texas, 151 connections, marked open to work, listing the University of Texas at San Antonio. The post gives the full name as trey ruiz. docs/x-source-backlog.md carried this name as Trey Rui for months, which the post itself corrects.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1913748970339500328 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Trey Ruiz / Trey R.” · published 2025-04-20 · pulled 2026-08-30

Trey Ruiz

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-20 · last seen 2025-04-20

Source

  • Second newly created LinkedIn profile in the same post, shown as Trey R., .NET Full Stack Developer, Austin, Texas, 151 connections, marked open to work, listing the University of Texas at San Antonio. The post gives the full name as trey ruiz. docs/x-source-backlog.md carried this name as Trey Rui for months, which the post itself corrects.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1913748970339500328 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Trey Ruiz / Trey R.” · published 2025-04-20 · 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. Trey Ruiz as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.