Overview

• FBI and Dutch police seized verif.tools, veriftools.net and a related blog, taking the marketplace offline.
• Dutch police confiscated two physical servers and more than 21 virtual servers in Amsterdam, copying the full infrastructure for analysis.
• Investigators linked roughly $6.4 million in illicit proceeds to VerifTools, which sold counterfeit IDs for as little as $9 in crypto.
• The FBI probe began in 2022 and included undercover purchases of New Mexico driver’s licenses to test the platform.
• Operators have posted messages claiming a move to veriftools.com with user funds intact, while authorities have not yet named administrators.