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Passport Information: How to spot a scam

Posted February 15, 2008

“Without exception, you’re receiving documents that have been lost or stolen, obtained through bribery, or procured fraudulently. In all cases, the resulting passports are subject to cancellation and confiscation. Worse, if you use them, you may face fines and even imprisonment for possessing illegal travel documents.” — Mark Nestmann

by Mark Nestmann

Baltimore – (TFN): Looking on the Internet, you’d think the world is your oyster if you want to purchase a second passport.

Just a cursory search using Scroogle (www.scroogle.org, a private alternative to Google!) reveals “instant passport” deals from numerous countries. These include The Bahamas, Belize, Burkino Faso, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Panama, Switzerland, and at least two unnamed members of the European Union.

The price is right, too. One website offers a passport from an unnamed EU member in Central Europe for only US$9,900. There’s even a “family plan” that gives you a 50% discount for a second applicant. And that’s not all! You also receive (drum roll, please) a new birth certificate.

Want to avoid those inconvenient border formalities? I found a website with just the ticket. This website offers a “diplomatic passport.” With one of these babies, you can cross international frontiers without having your luggage inspected. And while you might think that diplomatic passports are issued to, well, diplomats, the promotional text says that sometimes merely “giving the right amount of money to the right people” can result in diplomatic status.

If only these were actually legal passports…

Passport Information: Fake it

Every single one of these programs is a scam. Let’s start with the “instant passports” from the unnamed EU countries.

The fact that you’re offered a birth certificate “proving” you were born in the EU country is one virtually infallible indicator of fraud. Think about it. The new birth certificate is fraudulent in itself. It only follows that the passport based upon the fraudulent birth certificate is fraudulent as well.

Without exception, you’re receiving documents that have been lost or stolen, obtained through bribery, or procured fraudulently. In all cases, the resulting passports are subject to cancellation and confiscation. Worse, if you use them, you may face fines and even imprisonment for possessing illegal travel documents. For instance, under U.K. law, entering the country on a fake or stolen passport carries a sentence of 10 years imprisonment. Read on to learn about The Dominion of Melchizedek and how you can find a second passport legally…

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