An AI Fraud Kingpin’s Confessions

Yuriy Nazarenko, creator of the underground fake-ID site OnlyFake, describes building a service that used automation and generative AI to produce realistic photos of fake identity documents, which the DOJ said made over a million dollars selling IDs for $15 each. In interviews after a year in U.S. prison and months in ICE detention, he recounts how North Korean fake IT workers used the site and how the operation grew faster than he understood its consequences.