Dark web criminals selling passports, Telegraph probe finds, as number stolen in the post jumps 60% in five years

A black market for lost British passports appears to be escalating after HM Passport Office admitted the number of identity documents lost in the post has leapt by 60 per cent from 281 to 447 in the past five years. The figures are a fraction of the 80,000 “passports and supporting documents” sent through the post in 2018 but will fuel fears of the passports being sold on the black market.-- More...

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