I just was brought up to speed on groups of people sending in fake/Photoshopped ID's by scanning public records to defeat the KYC process and it seemingly is very easy to do. It appears that many people sent in fake documentation to the Bob's and Polymath KYC and had no hassles. How do these companies verify people if all they have to go on is public information? Did they even really check the ID's or were they simply collected the data? How rampant do you think this is? How many of us are complete fools for turning in our documents when others simply faked it. Now they have our data and the people who faked it are still secure.
The initial post from this thread is from 2018 and therefore almost 5 years old. So i doubt that this it is still so easy to just upload some picture of an ID that you find on the internet and a matching document in order to get verified on exchanges or other sites. I personally would not fake my data in order to do a KYC on an exchange where i plan to do trades or something like that because i would be afraid that i would do some kind of update to my KYC before i could withdraw the money from the exchange to my bank account if i wanted to do that in the future. I did KYC for 2 exchanges i think and also for one or two ICO#s that i joined a few years ago.
For an airdrop or something i could also imagine to fake a KYC, because if it fails, it won't matter that much anyway.