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Very important aspect of KYC and dangers

In ordinary course we keep issuing and submitting our KYC documents (identity and residential proofs such as PAN card, electricity bill etc.) to various people. For housing or car or other loans, bank accounts, or even for buying new sim card we submit these documents. At almost all these places they ask for self certification on these documents. We immediately sign those documents and hand over them without any doubt or suspicion. Is it correct? What is Danger? Just imagine your self certified copies are freely available in the hands of such persons & those documents can be used by him for EVERYTHING! Its really serious and its been seen that in most of the terrorist activities, KYC documents are sourced from the SIM card sellers. They take sim cards with your documents. These sim cards may fall in the hands of gangsters. They may issue threat for extortion or use sim card for a murder. Next? Police is on your doorstep. These sim cards may go to the hands of a terrorist and c...