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02/13/2008
News / How To Spot a Passport Deal That's "Too Good To Be True"How to Spot a Passport Deal That's"Too Good To Be True" Looking on the Internet, you'd think the world is your oyster if you want to purchase a second passport. Just a cursory search using Scroogle (www.scroogle.org, a private alternative to Google!) reveals "instant passport" deals from numerous countries. These include The Bahamas, Belize, Burkino Faso, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Panama, Switzerland, and at least two unnamed members of the European Union. The price is right, too. One website offers a passport from an unnamed EU member in Central Europe for only US$9,900. There's even a "family plan" that gives you a 50% discount for a second applicant. And that's not all! You also receive (drum roll, please) a new birth certificate. Want to avoid those inconvenient border formalities? I found a website with just the ticket. This website offers a "diplomatic passport." With one of these babies, you can cross international frontiers without having your luggage inspected. And while you might think that diplomatic passports are issued to, well, diplomats, the promotional text says that sometimes merely "giving the right amount of money to the right people" can result in diplomatic status. If only these were actually legal passports... In Case You Haven't Guessed: These are All Scams! Every single one of these programs is a scam. Let's start with the "instant passports" from the unnamed EU countries. The fact that you're offered a birth certificate "proving" you were born in the EU country is one virtually infallible indicator of fraud. Think about it. The new birth certificate is fraudulent in itself. It only follows that the passport based upon the fraudulent birth certificate is fraudulent as well. Without exception, you're receiving documents that have been lost or stolen, obtained through bribery, or procured fraudulently. In all cases, the resulting passports are subject to cancellation and confiscation. Worse, if you use them, you may face fines and even imprisonment for possessing illegal travel documents. For instance, under U.K. law, entering the country on a fake or stolen passport carries a sentence of 10 years imprisonment. That's not to say there's a shortage of false passports: About 60,000 valid Finnish passports are missing, many of them believed to be stolen. An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued after fraudulent applications in the space of a year. An armed gang stole 9,000 blank French passports in Paris. More than 2,500 blank Mexican passports were taken from a contract courier service in Mexico City. The Ministry of the Interior reported about 2,500 Russian passports missing. In Thailand, authorities have seized more than 1,000 fake passports. Fake Passports Become Government Scandals The world's governments don't like it when scammers sell stolen or otherwise fraudulent passports. This practice cheapens the value of legitimate documents. This practice also leads to retaliatory measures by other countries, primarily in beefed-up visa requirements. For instance, it was once possible for passport-holders from the Dominican Republic to travel to Italy without obtaining a visa. No longer. And once one country begins requiring visas, others rapidly follow. As a result, most European governments now require that Dominican Republic passport-holders obtain a visa as a condition to entry. As a result, efforts continue in many countries to crack down on passport fraud. The Guyana government has issued warnings against websites issuing fraudulent Guayanese passports. Suriname recently initiated a registration requirement for as many as 15,000 "illegal foreigners." Many of these illegal foreigners entered the country using false Suriname passports. However, my all-time favorite passport scheme is still up and running: The Dominion of Melchizedek. This is a completely made-up country. It only exists on the Internet. Melchizedek also charters banks, registers companies, and offers offshore trust. The price is right, too: You can obtain a passport from the Dominion of Melchizedek for a mere donation of your choice. Just don't try to use this "travel document" for anything other than a coaster or paperweight. How to Obtain a Legitimate Second Citizenship and Passport The most important precaution to take if you purchase a second passport is to make certain that the document you receive is officially sanctioned in law. Currently, the only countries with officially sanctioned economic citizenship programs are Austria, the Commonwealth of Dominica, and the Federation of St. Kitts/Nevis. (It's easy to confuse the Dominican Republic with the Commonwealth of Dominica, but they are two separate countries.) Of these, only the Dominica and St. Kitts/Nevis programs offer a realistic path to a second passport and citizenship. The Austrian program requires investing millions of euros in an Austrian business, with no guarantee that a passport will be forthcoming. It's also politically controversial. In contrast, when you apply for a second passport in either Dominica or St. Kitts/Nevis, you make the necessary investment only after you receive approval for your application. That means anyone offering you an instant passport from The Bahamas, Belize, Burkino Faso, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Panama, Switzerland, or any other country is selling fraudulent documents. Avoid them at all costs! By MARK NESTMANN, Privacy Expert & President of The Nestmann Group www.nestmann.com Source: http://www.sovereignsociety.com/offshore2484.html |
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