Passport fraud

Passport fraud is an act of intentional deception that involves forgery, alteration, or false use of a travel document, such as a passport, in a false or unauthorized manner. Common reasons to perpetrate passport fraud include illegally entering a country, avoiding deportation, committing financial crimes, and smuggling.

Passport fraud can be committed in various ways using both legal and illegal documents. For example, via identity theft, document forgery or modifying an existing passport. People may also make use of camouflage passport, which are otherwise legal to create, in fraudulent circumstances.

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