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There are organizations creating thousands of bank accounts to cash out transactions like this for a percentage. They use fake IDs, there’s no way to stop them.

Catching the people opening the accounts leads you to nowhere, they rarely even know their bosses.



There is a way to catch fake IDs besides ML and MRZ parsing, but this would require govt to allow banks to use their ID database.


Never gonna happen internationally. We barely managed to push through cryptographically signed passports after 9/11, and even those aren’t very well adopted (you will never face issues if your passport has a “faulty” chip)




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