DSA offers collaborative expertise from over 100 government, industry, and academic organizations – representing more than 300 individual members – who are dedicated to improving the security and authentication of critical value documents to combat criminal acts.
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WHAT’S AT STAKE?
The cost of fraud is staggering. The average organization loses 10% of revenue from counterfeiting and it has been estimated that the value of counterfeit goods globally exceeds 1.7 trillion dollars annually – over 2% of the world’s total current economic output. Document counterfeiting contributes to this fraud and represents a problem that is far greater than a financial loss. Personal security, domestic security and global security.
Counterfeit documents are more readily available in today’s digital age. Furthermore as physical and virtual documents become connected, the complexity of the situation increases. Governments are seeing more sophisticated counterfeits and fraudulent use of their issued documents – travel documents, identity documents and currency. In turn, counterfeit and fraudulent documents can be used to obtain legitimately issued documents. These fraudulently obtained but legitimately issued documents can be used for travel and financial crimes.
WHERE WE STAND
DSA is committed to identifying threats to legitimately issued documents, their production and issuance processes. We are committed to identifying technologies that would help secure the document issuance processes and to educating partners on issues involving document security.
Furthermore, DSA is committed to increasing awareness of the problems associated with counterfeiting of key financial instruments, travel and identity documents, serving as a resource for governments seeking to build their understanding of the solutions that exist today and providing recommendations and technical papers.
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COUNTERFEITING OF DRIVER’S LICENSES:
An increasing threat to the United States and what to do about it
This story from the CBC reports how counterfeit Canadian #passports and #visas supported an international human #trafficking syndicate and is raising an alarm about Canadian national security.
The exceptionally high-quality counterfeits allowed the accused smugglers to facilitate border crossings with "unimaginable proficiency."The counterfeits mimic the security features of passports issued between 2013 and 2023, including a fake chip that can read "data" from the document.Visa approvals allegedly came from embassy insiders in Canada, the U.S., France and Mexico.Due to the meticulous work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Gendarmerie royale du Canada, Project O-ctopus successfully identified the Montreal-based smuggler who used offshore counterfeits to support his operation. DSA is proud to count the RCMP National Anti-Counterfeiting Bureau as a member.
The human toll and national security implications of counterfeiting demand vigilance, including regularly updated, strategic document designs, secure technology innovations, and appropriate law enforcement resources to dismantle these criminal networks.
Watch the complete news story here: https://lnkd.in/e78D8F9i
Tony Poole | J. Ross Gornik | Alex Kambanis | René Strijbos | David Bielawski | Elaine Wooton | Negash Assefa | Bill Waldron | Michael McCaskill | Thirimachos Bourlai | Don Morrison | Owen McShane | Tom Jay | John Mercer | Mike Strock
