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Passport fraud is usually committed by: Stealing the identity of a deceased person to use their passport; Using false documents; i.e. fake birth certificate; Using stolen or modified passports, such as altering the photo I.D portion of an old passport; Circumventing the parent signatures required for the passport of a person 16 years or younger [6]
A fake passport is a counterfeit of a passport (or other travel document) issued by a nation or authorised agency. Such counterfeits are copies of genuine passports, or illicitly modified genuine passports made by unauthorized persons, sometimes called cobblers. [ 1 ]
Someone can steal or misappropriate personal information without then committing identity theft using the information about every person, such as when a major data breach occurs. A U.S. Government Accountability Office study determined that "most breaches have not resulted in detected incidents of identity theft". [ 7 ]
If you’re a Swedish national who lost your passport, the country will send you an emergency travel document—in pink. The best TSA security agents wouldn’t tell you that!
West German customs employee checking an alleged fake document.. Identity document forgery is the process by which identity documents issued by governing bodies are illegally copied and/or modified by persons not authorized to create such documents or engage in such modifications, for the purpose of deceiving those who would view the documents about the identity or status of the bearer. [1]
Ghosting is a form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") whose death is not widely known. Usually, the person who steals this identity (the "ghoster") is roughly the same age that the ghost would have been if still alive, so that any documents ...
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