B Vaughan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:25:12 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6902922.stm
> >
> >Frightening story. Anyone here had their passport stolen?
>
> I know several people to whom it's happened. None of them has ever
> experienced identity theft as far as I know.
And as far as they know- which is part of the problem, highlighted by
the story above. The correspondent seems not to have known his identity
had been 'stolen.'
> If you go to any
> consulate in any large city, you will see that most of the people
> there are getting replacement passports after theft. When I went to
> Rome to get my US passport renewed, all the other people there had
> either misplaced their passports or had them stolen.
I remember reading that the Barcelona UK consulate deals with more lost
passports than any other.
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