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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde pulls back the curtain on a fast-growing threat to U.S. remote hiring: applicants who claim they live in the United States, but are actually overseas, using semi-synthetic or fully legitimate personas complete with U.S. VOIP numbers, "real" apartment-complex addresses, credible degrees, and high-engagement LinkedIn profiles.

Why are so many suspicious profiles tracing back to Nigeria, India, and Pakistan: is it simply population scale, or are there specific enablers that make these routes more common? What changes when the motive shifts from "get paid in dollars" to something darker—organized crime, state-sponsored access, or even sanctions-evasion tactics modeled after North Korea's fake IT worker playbook? And how might post-2024 policy shifts, including tighter visa and travel restrictions, be reshaping the incentives and tactics behind this trend?

Bidemi explores what these schemes mean for insider risk, why traditional background checks can fail in a remote-first world, and what leadership teams should do now to harden hiring pipelines—before the next "perfect candidate" becomes the next breach.

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Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde sits down with Rob LoCascio, founder of KIDCompany, to explore why families need a new relationship with technology—and what it looks like to build an AI-native device designed for healthy childhood creativity and wellbeing. Rob shares the vision behind KID, where stories become interactive, kids can have real-time conversations with characters, and imagination turns into a place you can actually play. What does “safe by design” mean for an AI product made for children? How do you protect curiosity without limiting creativity? And in a world of passive screen time, what would it take to make tech that helps kids create more than they consume?

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

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Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde connects the dots between history and headlines as Iran's unrest reaches a deadly crescendo, "unfiltered" AI collides with real-world law enforcement, record cocaine seizures expose the scale of global trafficking, and Greenland becomes an unexpected flashpoint in Arctic geopolitics. What happens when a government frames domestic protest as foreign sabotage? Who's responsible when a chatbot generates criminal or abusive content—its creator, the platform, or the user? Are mega drug busts a sign of enforcement success, or proof that trafficking networks are growing faster than states can respond? And why is a frozen island suddenly at the center of alliance politics and great-power competition?

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

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