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You’re right, that’s one vulnerability in the system. I don’t know how common it is for someone to want to impersonate a homeless person, though, considering i
by Jolter 2y ago
You’re right, that’s one vulnerability in the system.
I don’t know how common it is for someone to want to impersonate a homeless person, though, considering in Sweden you’d probably have to pay up that homeless person’s debt…
Ok, I’m slightly kidding here, but really this kind of long con is not a common mode of identity fraud in Scandinavia, probably because it’s harder to get away with.
The more common identify fraud here would be to assume the identity of someone with a stable economy and then try to take out payday loans in their name. Which a homeless person would be declined for, of course.
It gets rather involved and usually involves phishing the victim into signing something malicious using a digital ID. Not to mention no bank would agree to pay it out in cash. So it requires not only determination but skill as well.
- jacobgkau 2y agoSo you just spent three paragraphs hand-waving away the exact situation this article was about. "I don't know how common it is... not really a common mode of identity fraud... the more common identity fraud here would be..." It was a homeless victim in this article. It seems like the improvements you're suggesting are entirely off-topic if you admit they wouldn't have helped here.
- Jolter 2y agoThey would absolutely have helped! If there were, for instance, a proper way to validate what someone looked like, for instance if the national ID database had been consulted for photos of the person when issuing a new ID, then probably they would have realized these two men look nothing alike.