[joshuamorton]

> Someone will manufacture and sell bulk identities

How? You've now moved the level of sophistication required from "someone runs some bots on the facebook website" to "someone is now committing complex fraud against a government".

If the only people who can run scams are state sponsored, that's still vastly better than the status quo.

[iamnothere]

Amazon has a huge problem with packages being sent to fake people at different addresses. It’s part of review scams. This won’t be much different. Just send the verification to empty houses and apartments.

[joshuamorton]

You now need to have a variety of fake addresses you can use, since scammed addresses will get banned. You also need fake IDs. So again, the bar has now been raised from "run a bot to make fake Facebook accounts" to "I have a large number of physical addresses and the ability to create arbitrary fake government IDs".

> Amazon has a huge problem with packages being sent to fake people at different addresses.

This usually involves those people getting weird packages and not doing anything with them, it doesn't require attacker-controlled addresses.