Overview

• Authorities took VerifTools offline on August 27–28 after seizing two physical and more than 21 virtual servers at an Amsterdam data center and posting a seizure banner on its domains.
• Investigators say the marketplace sold counterfeit IDs for all 50 U.S. states and multiple foreign countries for as little as $9, with payments accepted in cryptocurrency.
• U.S. officials linked roughly $6.4 million in illicit proceeds to VerifTools, while Dutch police estimated at least €1.3 million in platform revenue.
• The probe began in August 2022 and included undercover purchases of counterfeit New Mexico driver’s licenses paid for with cryptocurrency to validate the site’s activity.
• Administrators have not been identified, seized data is under examination and arrests remain possible under Dutch laws carrying up to six-year sentences, as operators claimed via Telegram that the service relaunched at veriftools.com, a claim not independently verified.