> - Verify the end customer’s government-issued ID.
This never happens. Lots of PPP or bank fraud investigations go nowhere because the perpetrators used fake IDs all the way down. No company is actually checking the governments database of drivers licenses or state ID cards. Only recently did eCBSV come out which would allow companies to digitally check that an SSN actually exists (mostly to stop synthetic identity fraud) but that still doesn't stop identity theft.
Some of this is about increasing friction, not collecting flawless info. Is it possible to fool Stripe Identity (https://stripe.com/identity) repeatedly? Probably. But it’s a pain to make new fake docs (or switch carriers) every time an account is flagged.
This never happens. Lots of PPP or bank fraud investigations go nowhere because the perpetrators used fake IDs all the way down. No company is actually checking the governments database of drivers licenses or state ID cards. Only recently did eCBSV come out which would allow companies to digitally check that an SSN actually exists (mostly to stop synthetic identity fraud) but that still doesn't stop identity theft.