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Eric McCorkle
@Eric McCorkle

Senior research scientist at a major UARC, (infosec, distributed systems, formal methods, quantum computing). Non-profit employee. Tech industry veteran. Election worker. Irredeemable workaholic.

#compsci / #infosec background, #physicist in training

Technoprogressive, humanist, reformist, social democrat #socdem, pragmatic left-progressive, hard-line pro-democracy, #OpenSource advocate, user, and contributor #OSS. Pro-#LGBTQ+

Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of any organization.

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Andrew Zonenberg · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxprjkak0k2hnsttzjgrch7pdrhdmx3shn4jr5eh3gwhttnhunmgsz9qsw2 basically I dont think its a scam per se, they're looking for useful idiots to proxy "get money" and "poke at interesting western computing infrastructure" through and may actually be wi...
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Second email in a day for what seems to be a new type of scam.

* Author claims to be someone from the Philippines, or somewhere similar, claims to have found my github page.

* Claims to want to work in the US

* Proposes a scheme where I act as a cut-out for them working a software engineering job, and I take a cut.

Many, many obvious red flags here, of course, even if you take it at face value, but wondering if anyone else has seen this?
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Andrew Zonenberg · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxprjkak0k2hnsttzjgrch7pdrhdmx3shn4jr5eh3gwhttnhunmgsz9qsw2 Pretty sure I saw an article a while ago that claimed these folks were mostly actually based in north korea, and looking to gain access to interesting sensitive stuff in the US (and I'm ...