10,000 Fake British Passports in One Year
This is the kind of thing that demonstrates why attempts to make passports harder to forge are not the right way to spend security dollars. These aren’t fake passports; they’re real ones mis-issued. They have RFID chips and any other anti-counterfeiting measure the British government includes.
The weak link in identity documents is the issuance procedures, not the documents themselves.
MathFox • March 26, 2007 7:39 AM
I object to calling those fraudulently issued passports “fake” as they are real passports, issued by the government, indistinguisable from valid passports. I prefer to call them “wrongly issued” or “fraudulently obtained”.
This leads to another question, how does the number of falsifications compare to the number of wrongly issued documents?