How to Check If Passport is Fake For a Foreigner

Foreigner Needing To Check Their Passport Is Fake

A second passport gives you the ability to travel abroad while also protecting your identity if the first becomes lost or stolen, yet the designs of UK passports and ID documents make it harder to detect fake documents.

Passports are one of the world’s most widely recognized forms of identification, making them ideal targets for fraudsters. Once scammers gain access to your passport number they can gather more personal data online including data breaches and phishing attempts as well as impersonate you at banks to gain access to accounts and funds held within. They could even gain employment under your name and receive government or social security benefits fraudulently in your name.

Fraudsters may use stolen passports to illegally cross borders, evade law enforcement and commit crimes. To do this, they use biographical information, photos or electronic chips in the passport to gain entry to other countries while bypassing border checks.

Therefore, passport manufacturing, transporting, storage and personalization must remain intact to combat counterfeiting. Governments and document verification providers can take several steps to detect fake documents; for instance using USPVS which allows jurisdictions to validate passport document data with Department of Homeland Security back end systems; also monitoring for any fingerprint smudges that indicate possible document tampering is of vital importance.