{"id":19617,"date":"2025-08-04T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-over-north-korea-remote-work-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:37:50","slug":"ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-over-north-korea-remote-work-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-over-north-korea-remote-work-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons program<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to \u201cbe the US face\u201d of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote employment.<\/p>\n<p>As working from home became the norm for many people, Chapman was able to find jobs for the foreign workers at hundreds of US companies, including some in the Fortune 500, such as Nike; \u201ca premier Silicon Valley technology company\u201d; and one of the \u201cmost recognizable media and entertainment companies in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/03\/ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-for-role-in-north-korea-remote-work-scam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/392be632a0ae4944138497a4b45b5c265d1f0f49\/0_0_1743_1394\/master\/1743.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0a9a64706c71271795e3de6f56c577fd\" title=\"Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam\" \/>Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons program<br \/>\nIn March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to \u201cbe the US face\u201d of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote employment.<br \/>\nAs working from home became the norm for many people, Chapman was able to find jobs for the foreign workers at hundreds of US companies, including some in the Fortune 500, such as Nike; \u201ca premier Silicon Valley technology company\u201d; and one of the \u201cmost recognizable media and entertainment companies in the world\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons program In March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to \u201cbe the US face\u201d of a company and help overseas &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-over-north-korea-remote-work-scam\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}