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Amsterdam Man Charged Over 46 Bank Accounts Opened With Deepfakes

June 17, 2026 at 15:06 EDT

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A 34-year-old man in Amsterdam has been charged with using deepfake technology to graft his own face onto other people's ID photos, bypassing ABN AMRO's facial verification during mobile onboarding to open 46 accounts under false names. Prosecutors charged him with fraud, document forgery and use of stolen personal data, seeking a 30-month prison term, six of them suspended, plus €6,240 in compensation to ABN AMRO.

Amsterdam District Court · Deepfake KYC Fraud

One Face, 46 Fake Bank Accounts

A 34-year-old Dutch man grafted his own face onto stolen ID photos with deepfakes — defeating ABN AMRO's selfie-and-passport verification to open dozens of fraudulent accounts. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Fraudulent accounts opened (47 in some reports)

2.5 yrs

Prison sentence handed down

€6,240

Compensation sought for the bank

How One Stolen Identity Became Many

A single attacker scaled a manual fraud into mass account creation.

Genuine applicant

One face, deepfaked across stolen IDs

The Attack Chain

1 · Harvest IDs

Social media, old data breaches, fake rental ads on Marktplaats

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2 · Deepfake

Graft his own face onto victims' passport photos

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3 · Onboard

Pass ID + selfie matching in the mobile app via residential proxies

The Weak Point

"A matching face does not mean a matching identity."

The flaw

Static "upload ID + selfie" matching — used widely by European banks — can be fooled by deepfakes and digital injection attacks.

The fix

Liveness detection confirming a real, living person is present — plus defenses against injection attacks.

How It Unraveled

The scheme came to light through a single mistake: applying a deepfake of a male face onto a female-issued ID. Evidence included dozens of forged IDs, debit cards and PINs in his car, deleted Telegram traces, ChatGPT chat logs, and CCTV of cash deposits.

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