Fake birth certificate

Identity theft is big business for criminals with the fake death type becoming the fastest growing method for scam artists carrying out fraud schemes.

This is probably one of the hardest and fake birth certificate sickest crimes to commit where a distraught family is trying to deal with the loss of a loved one only to have emotions and additional stress caused when they are informed of a criminal's actions of stealing the identity.

How Does the Faking the Dead Scam Work?

The fraudsters will look through the death notices in a newspaper and then apply for a birth certificate in the name of the deceased person. In the UK birth certificates contain no details of whether the person is alive or dead.