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Saturday, June 14, 2008
According to a story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, passport reading machines can "sniff" out individuals that are carrying fake documents, yet another reason to make sure that the passport issuing company you use is legit.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has installed new technology that can detect illegal passports. This week the machine detected a batch of tampered passports last week which led to the arrest of a suspected illegal passport issuer. The agents of the National Bureau of Investigation nabbed Net Caampued, 37, of Barangay Care, Tarlac City, on Thursday after prospective overseas workers pointed to her as the one who issued them the fake passports. Caampued also had a number of aliases such as Linaliza Romero, Linaliza Manalo and Nanette Manalo. The investigation was spurred on by complaints from several overseas job applicants from Anao, Tarlac, regarding the falsification of their passports. Starting early this year, the DFA began issuing machine-readable passports which use biometrics or special electronic information chips imbedded with security images on the laminated data page. Because of the new safety features on passports, documents that have been illegally tampered with are easier to spot and when then human eye can't catch them - technology now can. “The suspect used an old method called baklas, which means the passports were originally issued to other people but the data pages were replaced to show information about the new passport holder. The modus operandi was discovered after the machines failed to read the passports.” According to an Agent. This is the first case of passports being detected but it won't be the last, make sure the passports that you get for you and your family are done by a reputable company. That's why people that use our services come back again and again! Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080615-142790/Passport-reading-machine-uncovers-fake-documentsLabels: passport, passport applications, passport renewal, passport services, passports, travel, visa @: TexasTower.net  
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