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Welcome to Spycraft, a podcast that
tells gripping life and death spy stories and

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the amazing devices and operations that made
them possible. Now let's get started.

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A Maryland nail technician poses a software
developed to gain access to national defense programs.

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Min Fong Vong m I n H
and then Vong Vong is charged with

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conspiracy to commit wire fraud after posing
as a software developer and gaining access to

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national defense contractors is what's being alleged. The Maryland man is facing federal wire

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FRAUDCHAT charges and connection to his involved
with an n espionage ring helping to funnel

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US cash to North Korea. Investigator
claim as part of a wide reaching North

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Korean scheme to get around international sanctions
and fund nuclear weapons programs. Mister Wong

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has charged with conspiracy to commit a
wire FRAUDUFT to allegedly imposing as a software

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developer to gain access to a national
defense government contracting position. Vong, a

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high school graduate and licensed nail technician, told investigators who was approached by a

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person through his cell phone video game
app offering him a way to make easy

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money. He was accused of accepting
the offer, then following instructions of creative

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fake resume and background, I get
hired as a software developer a US IT

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contractor working remotely on national defense jobs. After getting hired, he picked up

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a work id in computer and allegedly
sent them to China. That's when unidentified

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North Korean man living in China used
the id in composing computer to pose is

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Wong and access to contractors, networks, and US defense information related to managing

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aviation assets around the world. Wong
was fired by the contractor when the company

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became suspicious, and then he was
arrested in Bowie Thursday. The North Korean

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man has not been caught probably won't
be. Vong was among those swept up

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in a major investigation of North Korean
scheme to funded weapons programs. According to

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investigators, North Korea has dispatched thousands
of skilled IT workers to live abroad,

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primarily in China and Russia, with
the aim of deceiving US and other businesses

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worldwide into hiring them as freelance IT
workers to generate revenue for its weapons of

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mass destruction programs. US investigators said
the IT workers have been known and eva

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individually earned up to over three hundred
thousand a year, generating hundreds of millions

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of dollars collectively each year. On
behalf behalf of designated entities such as the

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North Korean Ministry of Defense and others
directly involved in the DPD arcades un prohibited WMD programs