Elaborate cheque scam?

beanybot

You need a new passport. Cancel the one you sent ASAP.

eskbanker

beanybot wrote: »

You need a new passport. Cancel the one you sent ASAP.

Why, what difference would that make?

Having a dodgily-acquired picture of someone's passport may assist with a bit of identity fraud, but such fraud doesn't typically entail the recipient actually checking the validity of the passport with any authorities, so cancelling it would be shutting the stable door some time after the horse has bolted and serve no useful purpose!

It would be different if the passport itself had been lost or stolen but there's a limit to what can be done with an image of it....

beanybot

eskbanker wrote: »

Why, what difference would that make?

Having a dodgily-acquired picture of someone's passport may assist with a bit of identity fraud, but such fraud doesn't typically entail the recipient actually checking the validity of the passport with any authorities, so cancelling it would be shutting the stable door some time after the horse has bolted and serve no useful purpose!

It would be different if the passport itself had been lost or stolen but there's a limit to what can be done with an image of it....

Fake passpots can be created from images of passports. If you want the risk of travelling on a Passport that has potentially been flagged as fake / used in fraud / cloned / used in organised crime in the future then good luck to ya. I certainly wouldn't fancy it. :rotfl: I would unquestionably reccomend getting a new one (with a new non-tainted number).

msallen

beanybot wrote: »

Fake passpots can be created from images of passports. If you want the risk of travelling on a Passport that has potentially been flagged as fake / used in fraud / cloned / used in organised crime in the future then good luck to ya. I certainly wouldn't fancy it. :rotfl: I would unquestionably reccomend getting a new one (with a new non-tainted number).

Drivel. white text

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

D King. That be the boxing promoter. That would had the bells ringing straight away,

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

msallen wrote: »

Drivel. white text

Foolshine!


Friend had his passport stolen in the US. Every time he visits, he is pulled out and checked over. His passport was stolen 15 years ago!

beanybot

msallen wrote: »

Drivel. white text

How rude. It's NOT drivel. If you hand your passport details over to a known criminal you will happily still travel on that document?? Foolish.

rawhammered

goodness me people, stop responding to the troll-ammer!

Flobberchops

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

No need to worry.

Two posters both tutors sign up just to post about this?

I think not.

When people want to find out information, they use internet search engines. Those search engines often give results from discussion forums. To contribute to a given thread, the interested person has to create an account, hence every scam thread has higher than usual occurrences of new posters saying "yes, me too". This gives the illusion of a suspicious coincidence but is just a filtering mechanism.

Ben8282

Flobberchops wrote: »

When people want to find out information, they use internet search engines. Those search engines often give results from discussion forums. To contribute to a given thread, the interested person has to create an account, hence every scam thread has higher than usual occurrences of new posters saying "yes, me too". This gives the illusion of a suspicious coincidence but is just a filtering mechanism.

I disagree with what you have said here.