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The blockbuster hollywood movie watching kid and sad drone stat reading adult in me is wondering why all these people were not just killed years ago. Seems pretty serious to just be able to produce visas and fake/doctored passports.

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I don't think forging fake documents is punished by death sentence even in the US, though.

"Just" killing people for fraud? I would only be okay with that if it was also applied to politicians who abuse public funds.

I'd imagine the documents aren't worth anything since they don't correspond to any database entry. Just a way to scam people for fees.

It's not as though every border crossing in every country has instantaneous access to international passport registries. There are many, many places in the world where your docs only need to seem authentic to be useful.

They could also be useful as a privilege escalation on-ramp. Get these fakes, use them to gain genuinely issued, but lower status credentials (Bank account? SSN maybe?), then use that as leverage to go further up the chain.

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