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Originally Posted by widgeon13
If it is so common to find stolen passports then someone must have some statistics on the problem.
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Though this doesn't answer your point directly, it gives a sobering look at stolen passports as a major commodity.
The following only addresses
U.S. issued passports (from the State Department website):
"During the period October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011, the State Department reported
253,037 passports as lost and 60,984 as stolen."
Add to these numbers the passports lost/stolen from other countries and the potential for black market/terrorism use is obvious.