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Originally Posted by RTuesday
There are a few people who've got in trouble trying to use those at borders.
The main "use" for them was to use as "id" for opening bank accounts, but they've just been laughed at by banks for the past ten years or so.
One of the best products of this type was a "Sark Drivers License". 
(for those that don't know, Sark is an island in the (British) Channel Islands with no cars).
Another product that seemed to sell despite being useless was a registration (with plates) for your car in somewhere like Vanuatu. With this you were supposed to be able to drive your car all over Europe without worrying about import taxes etc (since you're just a visitor). The Vanuatu plates could be issued without them seeing your car - you buy the car as a tax-free export somewhere, then put these plates on.
They never explained how you're supposed to insure the car. Also, driving around Europe with Vanuatu plates is hardly low-profile! Imagine explaining to a traffic policeman or at a border why you're driving around in a Vanuatu car, with Sark drivers license, British Honduras passport, Thai mobile phone number etc... |
The camaflouge passports are mostly a joke. Many of these countries have been overturned in well publicized insurrections, etc. Moreover, many of these countries changed their names in the 1960s or 1970s, e.g. Zanzibar, South Vietnam, etc.
Gee, I wonder what they charge for a "camaflouge passport" from the Confederate States of America, the British Mandate of Transjordan and Palestine, the Ottoman Empire, the British Overseas Territory of Newfoundland and Labrador, or the Trucial States. H---, if they offered an inexpensive holographic passport from the Holy Roman Empire, I might just buy it. While some banker's might be naive, I think you are playing with fire presuming that these individuals don't have a clue what countries exist or not.
I am not going to give the name of the site, but there is a Russian site currently offer "camaflouge passports" from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland. The passport lacks the EU endorsement on top, but is maroon in color, has the same seal as modern UK passports, is machine readable, and is consistent in style with a British overseas passport issued in Hong Kong prior to 1997. I knew that the British Empire was compacting and I suspect that the "sun might now set" on it, but defunct?
I get a kick out of the notion of fooling terrorists with these fake passports. Of all the people in the world, who do you think would be the most tuned into the details of fake passports.
By the way, I have a stealth Nokia 6310 triband that I wouldn't mind offing. It has the special feature of not having the GPS stuff built into it. That was a popular "feature" in 2002. I wonder what I can get for it.
A Qatari national just paid US$1 million dollars for the mobile number 666-666. I guess he was not a Baptist.
Stu