Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema...
by rdtsc on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:49AM
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Having access to potentially thousands of dollars from cleaning up victim's accounts is an incentive to go and obtain a fake ID. Do the store clerks scan and verify that the ID is genuine somehow (check against a database, look at the photo) or do they just look at it in passing and give it back.
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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema...
by PeterisP on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:23PM
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From an EU perspective, obtaining a fake ID isn't that likely - counterfeiting anything certainly is possible, but it's hard and expensive (harder than counterfeiting money), risky (being caught with a fake means jail time, it's a more severe crime than theft and there's no "take-backsies" if they don't like the ID) so fraud with fake IDs is extremely rare.
It may happen with certain large scale scams involving organized crime, but not for small amounts; it simply doesn't show up in practice. What does happen is use of real IDs that are stolen (or bought from homeless people), but most places that have some risks have access to registries where they can verify if the ID has been reported as stolen.