I once met someone who worked in the Australian department processing refugee applications. They told me that they had a bunch of professional analysts who coul

I once met someone who worked in the Australian department processing refugee applications. They told me that they had a bunch of professional analysts who could identify false stories by asking hyper-local / endemic trivia: things like the shape of buildings, the local names of geographical features, the dates of recurring endemic events, etc. They said the number of Pakistanis trying it on as Afghan refugees was ridiculous. This would have been early noughties.