I just was brought up to speed on groups of people sending in fake/Photoshopped ID's by scanning public records to defeat the KYC process and it seemingly is very easy to do. It appears that many people sent in fake documentation to the Bob's and Polymath KYC and had no hassles. How do these companies verify people if all they have to go on is public information? Did they even really check the ID's or were they simply collected the data? How rampant do you think this is? How many of us are complete fools for turning in our documents when others simply faked it. Now they have our data and the people who faked it are still secure.
NOT FAIR.
Exactly as you say they are very easily tricked by false IDs, I think not just KYC that is easy to cheat, other companies also the same they are very easily fooled because I personally have done it several times, when I help others whose requirements are rejected because they are not equipped with ID.
Honestly, since September 2009 until now my activity is never far away with photoshop for me photoshop is a hobby that can't be separated.
Amen. KYC is a ridiculous concept. I don't trust my personal security to people on the internet and I surly don't send the passport where it can be grabbed in transit. Photoshop gets around the issue every time. I suspect they don't even check. Just collecting the info for god knows what.