Scams on Identity Documents

 Scams on Identity Documents

Online vendors offer international driver's licenses. Only a regular driver's license issued by your country's official auto club can be used with a legitimate one. To verify that you do, in fact, possess a valid driver's license from your home country, the official International Drivers License is essentially just a translation document in multiple languages. In and of itself, it is never an authorization to drive. You would have needed to produce a valid driver's license in order to obtain a real international driver's license, so where is your actual driver's license? Furthermore, it was never granted by any government body, therefore it cannot be used as an identity document on its own. Every once in a while, someone will question if we would recognize this as identification, and our response is always no.


Licenses to Drive—You can buy fake or counterfeit driver's licenses online. The banks have little trouble differentiating reality from fiction. No one is more deceived than the people who purchase these licenses.

Passports—Our law company receives handwritten passports on occasion. After 35 years of use, the majority of major nations have done away with the use of handwritten passports. A few of the less developed nations made use of them up until the time after 9/11, about 2002. Offshore banks will never accept a legitimate handwritten passport as identification, even if it is current. This passport has to be able to be read by machines. Additionally, I believe it would be extremely challenging, if not impossible, to enter the current world with a passport that was handwritten. Along with a traditional passport that is handwritten and has a photo affixed to it with a stamp and signature across the bottom, most countries now offer machine-readable passports with digital photographs; some even contain RFID chips. I would consider significant issues. Make your government issue you a new kind of passport that can be read by machines; one that includes a digital photo.

Camouflage Passports—An unofficial document printed in a passport-style booklet is known as a camouflage passport. I have my doubts about the legality of ordering passport booklets from printers in Asia. A country like Rhodesia, which issued the camouflage passport, is no longer in existence. The issuer's name sounded authentic because, in fact, it was. There were a few of offshore banks that set up accounts using them when they initially appeared. Those who had used them to open the accounts had their money frozen once they were on the market for a while. Maybe they could have shown different forms of identification, or maybe the bank saw them as fraudsters and confiscated their funds. I don't know because bank secrecy was a big deal in those countries back then. We have a long history together. It was a subject in a number of due diligence workshops, and we're confident that many letters have been sent to offshore banks warning them of this. You guessed it: the buyer is the one who falls for these disguised passports the most. It would be a bad idea to use one of these on an aircraft, at a hotel, or anyplace else where terrorists could be held. As a person of interest, you could expect to be interrogated extensively. You gained their attention and became singled out, which is never a good thing; however, if they just concluded that you like playing games, they might lose interest in you. The reality is that real terrorists, unlike the ones you see on screen, would probably strip the victims naked, just like any self-respecting Mexican road bandito. On shows aimed toward families, this does not work. Because of this, the criminals are able to discover any and all hidden items, including keys, identification documents, official credentials, money, contraband, and discrete weapons. Once again, you are a target for the criminals, and they will soon discover your second passport.

A camouflage passport would be a complete and utter foolhardy travel accessory. Particularly if the name is different, the authorities of that nation are likely to hold you and subject you to a lengthy interrogation process if they discover one on you. You won't need a second passport to use this novelty item. These disguised passports will do nothing but cause trouble down the road. Go to the hassle of applying for immigration in another nation and get a legitimate second passport if you're really anxious about going with your first one. Then, as we advise and assist our clients in obtaining, you should possess a residency card issued by the government, a driver's license from the country, and a visa card from a bank in that country. This is a complete set of authentic, legal identification that can be shown in any country.

Fantasia Passports—These are official documents issued by fictional nations. Hutt River is one well-known example. Some guy in Australia has a little plot of land. He went to the law books and promptly went to war with Australia. Apparently, they disregarded him and did not call for reinforcements, which gave him the green light to proclaim independence—or so he believes. He certifies himself as a nation and grants passports. It is highly probable that he purchased the passport booklets in Asia. Probably because he can't buy fresher ones or because he wants to use up the ones he has, but I think his are printed but not machine legible. A diplomatic rendition of one of them was even shown to me once.

Passports like these don't have much use. Perhaps it would be possible to cross the border between two truly despicable third-world countries if you were in one of those countries and an uneducated guard was stationed at the other. Third world African countries are eager to sell visa stamps to anyone, therefore people often use these fake passports to get into their country. They gather a number of entry visas and attempt to use them, reasoning that this makes them appear more legitimate because they have been accepted by other countries. Naturally, any civilized nation would see several red flags if the countries they supposedly visited only issued entry visas and not exit visas.

Sea Land, a decommissioned oil platform from World War II located a few miles off the coast of the United Kingdom, was involved in another such incident. It was an oil rig that went all sovereign and started issuing passports. For an amusing dash of comedy. Since the fake countries selling passports are completely fictional, counterfeiters have found ways to create and sell their own versions of the fake countries, robbing the original promoter of sales while knowing full well that they would be nearly difficult to prosecute. A few years ago, the Florida Keys attempted to provide passports that were issued by the Conch Republic. In the Florida Keys, conch is a popular seafood dish. These passports look like actual ones. By this point, I would have thought they would have been pressured enough to end the practice. Put simply, it is safer and more advantageous for you to not have one of these passports from these made-up countries.

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