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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 ]
The 2004 Israel–New Zealand passport scandal was an incident of passport fraud in July 2004 that led New Zealand to take diplomatic sanctions against Israel.High-level contacts between the two countries were suspended after two Israeli citizens suspected of being Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara, were caught trying to fraudulently acquire a New Zealand passport using the identity of ...
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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 ]
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The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits, such as obtaining a passport, travel document, or driver's license. In cases of mortgage fraud, the perpetrator may attempt to qualify for a mortgage by way of false statements.
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