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A Maryland nail technician poses a software developed to gain access to national defense programs.
Min Fong Vong m I n H and then Vong Vong is charged with
conspiracy to commit wire fraud after posing as a software developer and gaining access to
national defense contractors is what's being alleged. The Maryland man is facing federal wire
FRAUDCHAT charges and connection to his involved with an n espionage ring helping to funnel
US cash to North Korea. Investigator claim as part of a wide reaching North
Korean scheme to get around international sanctions and fund nuclear weapons programs. Mister Wong
has charged with conspiracy to commit a wire FRAUDUFT to allegedly imposing as a software
developer to gain access to a national defense government contracting position. Vong, a
high school graduate and licensed nail technician, told investigators who was approached by a
person through his cell phone video game app offering him a way to make easy
money. He was accused of accepting the offer, then following instructions of creative
fake resume and background, I get hired as a software developer a US IT
contractor working remotely on national defense jobs. After getting hired, he picked up
a work id in computer and allegedly sent them to China. That's when unidentified
North Korean man living in China used the id in composing computer to pose is
Wong and access to contractors, networks, and US defense information related to managing
aviation assets around the world. Wong was fired by the contractor when the company
became suspicious, and then he was arrested in Bowie Thursday. The North Korean
man has not been caught probably won't be. Vong was among those swept up
in a major investigation of North Korean scheme to funded weapons programs. According to
investigators, North Korea has dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live abroad,
primarily in China and Russia, with the aim of deceiving US and other businesses
worldwide into hiring them as freelance IT workers to generate revenue for its weapons of
mass destruction programs. US investigators said the IT workers have been known and eva
individually earned up to over three hundred thousand a year, generating hundreds of millions
of dollars collectively each year. On behalf behalf of designated entities such as the
North Korean Ministry of Defense and others directly involved in the DPD arcades un prohibited WMD programs