Police Warn: Gangs Target Kids for Passport Photos on Social Media

The police are warning that children are being urged to send pictures of their passports to criminal networks, reports Aftonbladet.

» Published: April 24 2025 at 09:32

Police Warn: Gangs Target Kids for Passport Photos on Social Media
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According to the police, it is a new approach to recruit children on social media.

He writes: "You get hundreds of thousands, you have to do the assignment, we need a passport photo of you", says August Knutsson, operational coordinator responsible for reducing violence in criminal environments at the police's national operations center, to Aftonbladet.

As a result, there is a huge risk that you become a target yourself. Because then the gangs get all the information. Then it's just a matter of looking up who is in your family and so on.

August Knutsson urges children never to share pictures of their passport or ID card.

According to the police, it is also important for parents to keep track of their children's passports and to be aware of which digital environments the children are in.

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