Where Is My Uk Passport Serial Number
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My idea is, that the serial number should go in linear basis. basically - passport #1 has Serial ID with 1 in the end
passport 200 would have it with 200 in the end.
While build date and serial by itself should not disclose anything (as it is not IMEI and is not used anywhere), having those two figures in one place we could do the following:
built on 1st Sep 2014 - SN lets say 4550-7774-000100 - this lets say Passport #100
built on 15thh Sep 2014 - SN 4550-7774-010100 - this one passport 10100
this would avoid wrong assumption if we take just SN (where the begining could show: buit batch, shift, date, number) and one would show 4550-7774-010100 and another built earlier shows 4550-7774-020100
hope you understand what I mean
basically, if we have only one criteria (just build date or just SN) we could not make any assumptions about numbers they have produced (and we already bought).
having build date and SN (at least fragment) - might be possible to check - how many passport they made.
assuming that firslt they have shipped one which were produced earlier - we could see amount of potentially sold, with some tolerance.
When referring to a document number for a passport, generally that is the. All of the advanced formatting tools have disappeared from my Quora account.
Thousands of stolen passports worth millions of pounds could be used for fraudulent or terrorist activity, experts warned yesterday. The Foreign Office admitted a serious breach of security when a van carrying the blank passports was hijacked outside a shop in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Monday morning. A spokesman confirmed that 24 parcels containing blank passports and vignettes, used for visa inserts, were taken from a van travelling from a printers in Oldham to RAF Northolt, north-west London.
It is thought the consignment contained around 3,000 biometric passports destined for British embassies around the world. The documents are worth £2.5m on the black market, according to police.
The passports were stolen when the driver of the vehicle stopped to buy a newspaper, police said. The thief attacked a second man in the van, before driving a short distance, parking the van and making off with the passports.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the passports contained no personal details and added that it would be a 'highly complex task' to personalise the documents. 'The FCO and Identity and Passport Service (IPS) have launched a targeted information campaign directed at organisations that could be presented with one of these stolen documents either for identification or travel purposes.'
He said the serial numbers of the stolen passports would be entered into the IPS system so that anyone attempting to travel with the document would be stopped at any airport passport control.
The stolen passports contain a chip replicating the data printed on the document. An IPS spokesman said: 'Our hi-tech security features mean that these passports are unusable.'
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However, security industry experts warned that with the right equipment the documents could be forged and used to commit crime. Tom Craig, a former Scotland Yard fraud detective working for ID security firm Amarlis, said it was likely that the raid was carried out by a gang with inside knowledge of the shipment.
'It would certainly appear they knew what was inside the vehicle,' he said. 'These passports are very likely destined for criminals, possibly even terrorists. Even if only 10% of them are ever used, that's a lot of criminal activity and a major headache for the security authorities.' He estimated that each blank passport could fetch £1,700 on the black market and said that with the right equipment information could be loaded on to the passports' RFID chip, which carries its individualised information.
'We are potentially talking about 3,000 fake IDs,' he said. 'A good immigration officer should be able to spot them if they have got the right equipment, but these passports .. could also be used for opening bank accounts and various other fraud. They could also be sold to illegal immigrants.'
Industry specialist Steve Beecroft agreed that forgers could print the passports as proof of identity. 'From that one document you could literally create your own identity as a foreign national who last month got a British passport,' he said.
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The stolen documents were produced by 3M Security Printing and Systems at a factory in Oldham, but the delivery was made by a different, Home Office-approved, contractor.
The theft is the latest in a series of losses or theft of personal data held by the government. Last year nine NHS trusts admitted they had lost patients' confidential information, while 25 million child benefit records were also lost. Last December it was revealed that the personal details of three 3 million UK learner drivers had been lost by the agency charged with storing them in the American state of Iowa.
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Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, called the latest theft a 'serious crime' but she did not believe it 'necessarily shows a sloppy attitude'.