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Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time
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Playing host to company laptops used by North Korean scammers posing as American IT workers might earn you a cut of the cash Pyongyang siphons from US firms, but as two more suckers have learned, it also means taking the fall when the FBI figures out what’s going on. Matthew Isaac Knoot, from Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince, of New York, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison in separate cases, the Justice Department reported Wednesday. Prince and Knoot will also face three

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