How to Make a Fake Canadian Passport

Your federal government is here to help you!

Search for “canadian passport renewal” and use the link to “Adult Simplified Renewal Passport Application”. You should end up at https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/passport/forms/pdf/pptc054.pdf, but don’t take my word for it by just clicking on that link. Do your own independent search just as if you were a regular Canadian using the internet to renew your regular Canadian Passport.

You should find a downloadable PDF form that looks like the image above.

Download the form and complete it, just as if you were a regular Canadian using your computer to renew your regular Canadian Passport.

When you have downloaded the file it will be stored on your computer as “pptc054.pdf”. Now open this file with your regular PDF reader and complete the form using the data from your current passport or drivers license, or both. A clerk in an office will compare what you have typed against two pieces of photo-id.

Make sure you get the details correct!

Once the form is completed you are to save it to disk, print it on hard-copy paper, and take it to a convenient passport office.

But before you print it, inspect the top-right corner of the form. A coded version of your data is made in that box by the form itself.

Clever Little Form!

After you have saved your form and before you print it, take a screen-snapshot of it and save it as an image file (PNG or JPG) and load that image file into MSPaint.

For my own sake I have obliterated most of the encoded data, but have revealed enough to demonstrate to you that you can use the text tool in MSPaint (set to Courier 13 pt grey) to make a few subtle changes to that encoded data.

“GREAVES” from the input data box has been edited in the coded box to be “GRIEVES”. Well, they sound alike, don’t they? And they are the same length – seven characters.

So if your date of birth is 23rd July 1936 and you are still young-looking, you can get away with a birth date of 27th September 1946. And so on. Changing “7” to “1” and vice-versa, “3” and “8”, is more likely to pass this test than changing “1” to “8”. You can see why.

Of course, I haven’t applied for a fake passport in this manner; I would never do that.

I only got as far as modifying the form and printing that modified form on paper so that I could compare it with the printed version of the form I actually presented at the passport office.

Down at the passport office I took a number, and when called, went to the clerk with my honest passport application form on paper, my current passport, and a credit card.

I watched the clerk’s eyes.

The clerk’s eyes darted back and forth between the right-hand side of the printed application form and my current passport.

Of course, my current passport reads “GREAVES”, and of course, the right-hand side of my application form reads “GREAVES”, so no problem there.

The clerk has no need to try to decipher the coded box; after all, that part of the application form is completed under control of the little program within the PDF file, right? So it must be correct. Right?

My supposition is that within fourteen days of my credit card being swiped I would have a passport that bears my current photo, would be valid, issued by the Canadian Passport Office, but would bear false or fake data in the form of my surname, and any other data I thought I could modify realistically, including but not limited to date-of-birth, given names (“christopher”/”kristoffer”), mother’s surname and so on.

Within a week of that I should have a fake driving license that matches my fake passport in detail.

What else do you need to start your fake photo-id business?

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