OnlyFake creator recounts AI fake-ID empire, UN letter and arrest on US warrant
United Nations said North Korean remote IT workers used the site; Yuriy Nazarenko was sentenced to time served and deported
Yuriy Nazarenko, the Ukrainian creator of OnlyFake, an AI-powered underground service that generated realistic fake identity documents, has told his story publicly for the first time. In interviews with 404 Media, the 28-year-old, now free and living in Asia, described how the service grew from one man's Photoshop work into what the Department of Justice said was a $1.2 million operation that produced at least 10,000 fake IDs.