> Your residence history and your presences on the distributed Internet is the HARDEST to fake.
Only if you don’t plan ahead. I can’t remember which book/movie/show it was from, but there was a character who spent decades building identities by registering for credit cards, signing up for services, signing leases, posting to social media, etc so that they could sell them in the future. Seems like it would be trivial to automate this for digital only things.
Sounds a bit like the practice of shelf companies, where people create companies, give them a basic history with the tax department, etc, purely for the purpose of selling them to people who need a company with such a history to .. hide things
That is a "valid" scam idea. However it is tricky to pull off. If anyone you sell the account to is investigated they may find you and can possibly get you on fraud even before they cannot arrest your customer. You also need to sell all these accounts - investigators look for and hang out in the places where such services are sold just so they can buy from you first and then shut you down (they don't know of all such places and eventually shut down the ones you know of). There are also suspicion that investigators are running that same plan and so nobody smart will buy because they can't be sure you are not the police.
But this is happening all the time. These accounts are sold anonymously and from countries where it is hard to find the culprit and harder to prosecute. It's the primary reason WHY companies like eBay, Amazon, and Google DON'T care about your account age or activity.
Only if you don’t plan ahead. I can’t remember which book/movie/show it was from, but there was a character who spent decades building identities by registering for credit cards, signing up for services, signing leases, posting to social media, etc so that they could sell them in the future. Seems like it would be trivial to automate this for digital only things.