Do US Visa Documents Have A Typo?
from the time-to-change-the-fraud-prevention dept
Our friends over at the always excellent Notcot were recently playing around with a microscope and noticed what certainly appears to be a typo on the US visa and border crossing card. The back of the card has very tiny etchings of every US president and every state flag -- but the etching of 6th US president John Quincy Adams appears to have a typo, calling him John Quincy Adames with an "e" added into the last name. Take a look:The other explanation makes a lot more sense. It's that this is a form of fraud/counterfeiting detection. Similar to how dictionaries would sometimes insert a fake word or phone books would insert fake people/numbers to try to "catch" if anyone was copying their work, perhaps the US government added the extra "e" on the assumption that counterfeiters would actually spell JQA's name correctly -- thus giving them a way to spot a fake. Of course, that's a pretty weak form of anti-counterfeiting, but in combination with some other techniques, perhaps it's useful. Either way, it's an amusing bit of trivia...
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Occam's Razor says otherwise....
Government Employee Incompetence.
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You stole my name...
/Sarcasm
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"i meant to do that" look. only with the cute.
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Give them a break!
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Texas Drivers Licenses
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He invented everything.
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Another possible reason...
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anyone else have a border crossing/green card and microscope?
we're all speculating about this, but there must be SO many more out there we can look at!
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Different Typos
Much like currency matches secret hashes of numbers to details like dates of issue.
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Ruined
Nice one, Mike ;)
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It's deliberate
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USA Visa Typo
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Good One
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