Fake passports have become a huge international problem. And it turns out security agents have blind spots too.
How big is the problem? Interpol estimates that 9,800 people tried to cross into Europe with false documents in 2013. Since 2002, more than 40 million passports have been reported lost or stolen. Earlier this year, as the world obsessed over the bizarre disappearance Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, suspicion turned to two Iranians traveling with stolen European documents. They were eventually ruled out as suspects.
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