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Banks and other financial services companies must plow more funds into verifying the identities of their remote customers to stop fraudsters, money launderers and other criminals from overcoming their defenses against illicit finance, analysts told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Their assessment comes as the FBI and Dutch police unpack more than 20 servers seized on Aug. 28 during a coordinated raid on VerifTools, which ran several websites where visitors could upload photographs and enter false details to generate false images of driver's licenses, passports and other identification that they could then download in exchange for cryptocurrency. "They probably contain a treasure trove...