Ghana has been named as one of the countries whose citizens are stealing the identities of Australians.
News out in the Australian media say the theft which is in a large scale involves spies, drug dealers, illegal immigrants and people engaged in money laundering.
The report say passport details of five people emailed to a travel agent for travel for people from Ghana has been found.
One report by the Herald Sun citing documents from the country’s Department of Foreign Affairs and trade says the illegal practice of forging passports of living Australians is widespread.
According to the report, a fake or doctored Australian passport has been found, on average, once a week in the past three years.
Fake passports were detected at ports in countries including Britain, Dubai, Ghana, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Turkey, and Peru, the report indicated.
According to the report, some of the passports were in the hands of spies, smugglers and thieves.
Australian passports were used in 525 frauds in the last financial year, and many people were caught lying to get a passport, it said.
Source: Citifmonline
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