passport
Is it legal to submit fake digital identification documents to private companies?
<p>Suppose that Facebook asks me to verify my identity. Is it then legal for me to create a fake digital image of a passport showing my pseudonym as the real name and submit that as if it were an image of a real passport? </p>

<p>Nope.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1028" rel="noreferrer">18 U.S. Code § 1028</a> - Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information</p>
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<p>(a) Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (c) of this section—</p>
<p>(1) knowingly and without lawful authority produces an identification document, authentication feature, or a false identification document;</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>(c) The circumstance referred to in subsection (a) of this section is that—</p>
<p>(1) the identification document, authentication feature, or false identification document is or appears to be issued by or under the authority of the United States or a sponsoring entity of an event designated as a special event of national significance or the document-making implement is designed or suited for making such an identification document, authentication feature, or false identification document;</p>
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<p>So you're 1) producing a false identification document that 2) appears to be issued by the United States.</p>
<p>Whether you'd actually be prosecuted for this is something that I'm not qualified to answer.</p>
