Quote from: gibson83 on June 10, 2012, 06:17 amThink the passport works?Hi Gibson83,You'll have to ask FullFrontal for the details about the passports he's selling, I can only provide my opinion!The issue of changing your identity has to do with where and how you use your new ID. A new passport or national ID card is only the first step in assuming a new identity.You also do not need to assume that simply because you have a doctored or fabricated passport that you need to use it all the time. If, for instance, you are a British citizen you have the right to live or work anywhere in the EU. You can use your real British passport to get over to France easily enough and from there you can use a train to travel to Spain, Italy or any other EU country and start using your false passport once you're past the border. Many countries have agreements where passports are not required to travel between then.You need to see a forged national ID card or passport as the *first stepping stone* in assuming a new identity. Your first objective in moving to a new area is not volunteering it unless you have to e.g most landlords don't care what name you give them as long as you pay your rent regularly. If someone tries to insist on seeing your ID, see if you can stay elsewhere.Moreover, no matter how good the forgery is, if you hold a Dutch National ID card and can't speak the language you are going to cause suspicion if you meet any of your "fellow" country folk!Before you go straight to the bank to open an account I would suggest that you spend a little time getting to know the area. You may well be able to find cash in hand jobs to tide you over - of course if you can do this indefinitely you won't need papers of any kind! Go to your local Library and get a card from there to test your new ID out ; this will also give you a chance to read up on the area around you. Look at your supposed birthplace on the ID card too and find out a little bit about "your" country as you can expect to be asked about this. Another nice touch is if the library has a foreign language section to take out a few books in "your own" language too and be seen to be reading them.If you're still unsure about it's efficacy, send yourself a few Western Union payments and pick them up from a local newsagent or similar to see if the ID is good. Once you're satisfied, I'd suggest you continue building your identity by taking driving lessons so that you can have a legally issued local driving licence - of course your photograph will end up on their system but if you can obtain a real document in exchange for a fake one, it's a worthy sacrifice in my opinion! If you have a foreign name, you'll often find you can get away with misspelling it slightly on the new document e.g Rejewski becomes Rejevski which will make it harder to trace if you're using a stolen, altered passport.By now you should feel comfortable about opening a bank account in your new name. Utility companies once again don't do due diligence on people who move to new properties and so you can obtain proof of address for any name you give them simply by living at the property and calling your electricity/water/gas etc. company and giving them the name on your ID.The bank will take a photocopy of your ID documents but to the best of my knowledge (and bearing in mind I work in a bank!) they will not be subject your passport to a UV lamp to see if it's been tampered with - irrespective of the fact that each cashier has access to one... You are perfectly within your rights to ask that the passport/ID card not leave your sight and indeed this is a requirement at my own bank, that the ID document be copied in the owner's presence.If you are worried as I said use the fake document to obtain a Secondary ID and use that instead.Alternatively see if you can use your fake ID to buy a reloadable prepaid Mastercard or VISA which are available in all European countries. If your employer is willing to wire your wages to the card providers bank account to reload your card then you can circumvent the bank account issue entirely.When it comes to finding work you should probably ask the person who sold you the fake ID if your passport/ID card represents a real person or not. If so then you need to think hard before you apply for a Social Security number to work in a country they're likely to be in as naturally it will appear suspicious for the same person to appear twice on the system -as far as I'm aware though the system isn't pan European e.g a "Latvian" working in Italy can be issued an SS# provided they haven't worked there before.If you're living in a country where you have to provide ID documents to Police on request, keep your primary (fake) ID at home and only carry your Secondary ID like a driving licence with you. If the Police tell you it's a legal requirement to keep your National ID card / Passport on you at all times, claim ignorance on the grounds you're a foreigner and had no idea - I have been in this situation twice before and after examining my secondary ID in both cases the Police sent me on my way with a warning, once in Paris and once in Moscow.It will look suspicious if you only have the secondary ID in your wallet though so do make sure you also have a library card in the same name and perhaps a couple of cards which don't require ID but still have your name on them - why not sign up to your local Trade Union? How about getting a membership card to your Pool club? And so on...As you can see building a new Identity is a labour of time and effort but I think because of the Schengen Zone, Europe lends itself very well to it.V.