AI-generated fake IDs claimed to pass crypto exchange KYC are selling for $15

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Shockingly it is just $15 to get a fake AI generated driver licenses and passports. It has been reportedly succeeded KYC verification on many crypto exchanges.

The site, OnlyFake, generates realistic fake driver’s licenses and passports from 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and multiple European Union countries, and takes payment in multiple cryptocurrencies through Coinbase’s commercial payments service.

Exchange users need to be careful. People are many on centralized exchanges and this makes it for scammers to look for people to scam.

In our own tests, OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a picture, which many sites require for verification purposes. 404 Media then used another fake ID generated by this site to successfully step through the identity verification process on OKX.

We have been hearing about this type of fake verification since many years ago.. It is not new.

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[Odohu]

Shockingly it is just $15 to get a fake AI generated driver licenses and passports. It has been reportedly succeeded KYC verification on many crypto exchanges.

I know this development will now mark a new shift in KYC processes, another burden of technological innovation. However, a CEX with good KYC providers or rigorous KYC process will easily detect these as fakes.

Exchange users need to be careful. People are many on centralized exchanges and this makes it for scammers to look for people to scam.

Apart from beating the KYC requirements of CEX exchanges and platforms, I do not know how this could be used to scam exchange users. From the article, it is not a case of data theft, just AI doing its thing. It is the exchanges that need to be more careful before scammers use their platforms to launder funds by passing their KYC with fake identities that cannot be traced.

In our own tests, OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a picture, which many sites require for verification purposes. 404 Media then used another fake ID generated by this site to successfully step through the identity verification process on OKX.

We have been hearing about this type of fake verification since many years ago.. It is not new.

Exchanges require selfie with the IDs, so how will that be possible with this AI generated IDs? I know that anything is possible like printing the ID on plastic cards but then, I don't know if they already explored that option. f the scammer do that, the real face of the scammer or someone trying to evade KYC would have been captured. What do you have to say about that?

[aTriz]

Shockingly it is just $15 to get a fake AI generated driver licenses and passports. It has been reportedly succeeded KYC verification on many crypto exchanges.

The site, OnlyFake, generates realistic fake driver’s licenses and passports from 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and multiple European Union countries, and takes payment in multiple cryptocurrencies through Coinbase’s commercial payments service.

Exchange users need to be careful. People are many on centralized exchanges and this makes it for scammers to look for people to scam.

In our own tests, OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a picture, which many sites require for verification purposes. 404 Media then used another fake ID generated by this site to successfully step through the identity verification process on OKX.

We have been hearing about this type of fake verification since many years ago.. It is not new.

this is very concerning.
but it is the fault of OKX's KYC system too. most exchanges have facial recognization features too in their kyc requirements. you have to open your mobile webcam and complete a facial recognization test.
I don't know why a prominent exchange like OKX missing that.

[KiaKia]

You expect someone like me to believe this? If KYC passed this type of documents then they sucks at it big time, maybe they are using the old KYC verification process, anyone who use their $15 to get such KYC won't be able to pass Binance Exchange KYC verification.

There is only one way, your A.I shaped face on the I.D must come to live, and hold the I.D in it's hand and pass live Video KYC verification that is available on Binance Exchange, there is no taking picture behind the scene and uploading it on the exchange, you need to do it, live.

So tell me, how is this going to work? Eventually that $15 is a thrown away money, you will be picky because of Exchanges to use such ID, better avoid exchanges with KYC verification or use your very own ID.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Well, neural networks are starting to be so harmful that all the joy from their appearance gradually turns into the opposite. Exchanges that require customer verification will begin to impose absurd requirements to ensure that their customers are the people they are. We will wink, jump, and grimace to prove our identity.
All these innovations from enterprising creators of such tools will soon shoot themselves in the foot. There will come a time when it will be difficult for a real person to prove that he is exactly him.

[ImThour]

I mean, you cannot stop and fight back AI. It's going to be much stronger than what we can even think of. Anyone with already pre-trained model of this AI can make Fake Passports and IDs at their home without even paying $15, if they make it open source and still KYC companies will not be able to ban them. They have literally no way to find if it's AI based or no.

The only possible solution to this is Realtime Video KYC.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

You expect someone like me to believe this? If KYC passed this type of documents then they sucks at it big time, maybe they are using the old KYC verification process, anyone who use their $15 to get such KYC won't be able to pass Binance Exchange KYC verification.

There is only one way, your A.I shaped face on the I.D must come to live, and hold the I.D in it's hand and pass live Video KYC verification that is available on Binance Exchange, there is no taking picture behind the scene and uploading it on the exchange, you need to do it, live.

So tell me, how is this going to work? Eventually that $15 is a thrown away money, you will be picky because of Exchanges to use such ID, better avoid exchanges with KYC verification or use your very own ID.

That's what surprised me, nowadays it's not enough with just a fake ID, they ask you to record a video with your face and holding the ID, so it's not enough just to use an AI to make the ID, in any case if with the AI they make a video of you too, it will probably fit. The moral of the story is that I think we should be more careful than ever with our privacy, as our data can be used for scam attempts using current technology.

[Lucius]

You expect someone like me to believe this? If KYC passed this type of documents then they sucks at it big time, maybe they are using the old KYC verification process, anyone who use their $15 to get such KYC won't be able to pass Binance Exchange KYC verification.
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If you think that CEXs obey the law down to the smallest detail, then you are living in a big delusion, because they not only close their eyes and turn their heads to the other side whenever possible, but also help users to become legal in their system in an illegal way. The CEX you mention is one of those that owes its success precisely to its work on the edge of the law, or better said in the gray zone, which is why they are banned from working in many countries.

Some Binance employees and volunteers shared tips on forging bank documents, falsifying addresses or hiding the country of origin to secure a Binance debit card, CNBC reported, citing Binance-controlled Chinese-language chatrooms, whose messages it translated.

[Nwada001]

Exchange users need to be careful. People are many on centralized exchanges and this makes it for scammers to look for people to scam.

Apart from beating the KYC requirements of CEX exchanges and platforms, I do not know how this could be used to scam exchange users. From the article, it is not a case of data theft, just AI doing its thing. It is the exchanges that need to be more careful before scammers use their platforms to launder funds by passing their KYC with fake identities that cannot be traced.

Since you really want to know how this scammer can use this to scam exchangers, if you check very well on the aspect of the P2P option for those exchanges that have it enabled, one of the safest advises to stay away from scammers is to deal directly with someone whose name matches the account they are paying with.
 
So it's possible these scammers can go steal money from someone stacking them on a particular account and then use this AI ID card generator to get an ID pass the verification, and the name they will use will be that of the account they set up for wire fraud. In such a case, they can easily carry out their scam successfully without you, the exchange users, noticing this, and at the end of the day, the money will be traced down to your account.

There is only one way, your A.I shaped face on the I.D must come to live, and hold the I.D in it's hand and pass live Video KYC verification that is available on Binance Exchange, there is no taking picture behind the scene and uploading it on the exchange, you need to do it, live.

So tell me, how is this going to work? Eventually that $15 is a thrown away money, you will be picky because of Exchanges to use such ID, better avoid exchanges with KYC verification or use your very own ID.

Not all exchanges use this old carrion of ID verification again, like asking you to hold your ID in your hands and snap before sending. Now, most of the time, all you need to do (like the Binance you use, for example) is provide the ID card on the required space, and they will move you to the next face, and this space is where they will do a video verification.
 
For someone who has been able to buy ID only for a particular entity, they can go as far as getting a video of the same person they use to pass verification using two gadgets in play. They can outsmart the KYC algorithm they use for facial verification.
 
Identity theft is real, and people are going to lengths just to prove and convince any human or machine that they are who they claim to be. Don't be all convinced with the latest procedures that scammers can't pass; the more they advance, so are those scammers.

[Su-asa]

This is so unbelievable, can this be possible?
My very first experience with binance was tough as they are very sensitive to every KYC, when you tried to pass the first KYC with faje indentity you can not try to pass the other ones because the whole documents you will be asked for must have the same informations without any errors.
Believing this, I can't tell if this can be so positive, if it works in other exchanges they can not work in all as some of them are more sensitive that the other. Binance is more sensitive than any other exchanges, all the informations will be yours you can not use your documents to verify KYC and still use anotherones bank or any other payments option which are not yours.

[suzanne5223]

The reason why AI-generated fake IDs were able to pass crypto exchange KYC is that most of the crypto exchanges only check for the ID genuinely which an AI-generated ID will easily succeed in if they never contact with the user's country of residence government ID personnel for more deep verification. However, some private ID verification companies have access to the information, and only the exchange that partners with them will be able to detect fake IDs.

[sokani]

You expect someone like me to believe this? If KYC passed this type of documents then they sucks at it big time, maybe they are using the old KYC verification process, anyone who use their $15 to get such KYC won't be able to pass Binance Exchange KYC verification.

This is not a fake news as it's been reported by multiple sources, as a matter of fact I did a google search and more than 10 crypto media outlets has this news. So you can believe whatever you want to believe, but I can tell you that scammers are gaining upper hands with the use of AI.

The only possible solution to this is Realtime Video KYC.

Scammers can bypass realtime video KYC using deepfake. You can visit the links to know more.

- https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22795/how-i-used-deepfakes-to-bypass-security-verifications-in-a-bank#

- https://youtu.be/t59gRbpYMiY?si=a6PrOSNl44fnH75s

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What I'm most curious about is the data that was fed to the artificial intelligence to enable it generate the IDs. It most likely would be tons of actual data, presented in the most natural way to enable it render a believable output.

Do not submit your data to any website.

[kaka_Shipai]

Well, AI is awesome and can be problematic at times. But all the fiels now have to integrate AI and have to take care of the bad side of it also. Crypto exchanges are no exception either, They now have to come up with a KYC where AI may not be able to fool them and they can do it using the AI also. And that is why i am loving this AI era.

[Faisal2202]

OMG, this is totally insane I mean I did not realize the verification process of centralized or decentralized exchanges would be that bad, OKX is a good exchange I have used it for airdrop purposes but never did p2p on it so I think I am safe for the time being and thanks for sharing this news, I will spread it like fire. Along with this, I also heard there is a listing of Binance users' information on dark web. I don't know how true is that, but the hacker was offering names, contact numbers, addresses, and other information.

I don't know how that information got leaked, by getting my email and address, and phone number should not be a big work for a hacker to get from some exchange, I mean we can get these information from person's profile on p2p pages or can't we?

[Orpichukwu]

I mean, you cannot stop and fight back AI. It's going to be much stronger than what we can even think of. Anyone with already pre-trained model of this AI can make Fake Passports and IDs at their home without even paying $15, if they make it open source and still KYC companies will not be able to ban them. They have literally no way to find if it's AI based or no.

The only possible solution to this is Realtime Video KYC.

It seems like there are just scammers or a group of developers who have nothing to do with their resources rather than develop an app or something that can be used to break what others have built. The more technologies are advancing on this, online stores, banks, and exchanges for KYC verification are making it harder for someone who is not real to pass their verification, so a group of people somewhere is busy building something that can break those security protocols.
 
Unless it's in a critical state, exchanges and other platforms will find it discomforting to start asking their customers for video verification. They do ask, but those ones are likely being verified by their AI tools, which they have also built for such purposes, which means that scammers can still look for a way to outsmart those steps. With the lot of video editing data we have all over the web these days, it's scary knowing the lengths these scammers can go to make a point.

[348Judah]

Shockingly it is just $15 to get a fake AI generated driver licenses and passports. It has been reportedly succeeded KYC verification on many crypto exchanges.

The site, OnlyFake, generates realistic fake driver’s licenses and passports from 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and multiple European Union countries, and takes payment in multiple cryptocurrencies through Coinbase’s commercial payments service.

Exchange users need to be careful. People are many on centralized exchanges and this makes it for scammers to look for people to scam.

In our own tests, OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a picture, which many sites require for verification purposes. 404 Media then used another fake ID generated by this site to successfully step through the identity verification process on OKX.

We have been hearing about this type of fake verification since many years ago.. It is not new.

very soon it will be even free to do, since they have achieved doing that on pictures and text contents, there's nothing they cannot achieved with the use of the artificial intelligence, very soon now, industries and organizations will have to be making their requirements under specification that go against the use of any AI related presentation, also thanks to the scientific technology developers whom had deem fits in contending against the identification of anything that has to do with the use of AI, there are systems and software that detect any use of AI just as we have in plagiarism.

[Yaunfitda]

So it's up to this exchanges, and to be fair, they hire 3rd party to handle their KYC. so the burden is now on this entities to level up or be on the lookup for this fake AI-generated ID's now as this is the new thing for criminals. They can really used it to register, pass and then use those exchange for whatever purpose it could serve them. And when we think that we have captured them because they used this CEX, then the authorities might be in for a surprises as the document is fake but it goes through this exchanges without noticing it. So in the long run it could really hurt this exchanges. So they better hurry up and make new softwares to detect this fake documents immediately.

[acroman08]

I can't help but wonder if this is a case of a lazy worker on the exchange side or if this AI-generated passport actually worked.

What I'm most curious about is the data that was fed to the artificial intelligence to enable it generate the IDs. It most likely would be tons of actual data, presented in the most natural way to enable it render a believable output.

Do not submit your data to any website.

this is what I think too, they'd need the personal information of someone else in order to bypass verification. this just further proves how dangerous it is to give out personal information online.

[Ojima-ojo]

For anyone crypto exchange user, they will already know that such services are just potential scams waiting to happen, this is because the accounts that are verified via a fake ID will definitely lead to account problems along the line, and reputable exchanges will definitely discover those accounts under such condition and status.


So for a trader who wants to use the exchange to trade large coins will definitely avoid this kind of service because it will eventually lead to problems in the long run.