Detect tampered and deepfake Egyptian National ID Card

What a genuine Egyptian national ID contains

The number reads century digit, six-digit birth date, two-digit governorate code, four-digit serial, and a final check digit. The century digit is two for the 1900s and three for the 2000s, the governorate code names the place of birth with 88 for those born abroad, and the thirteenth digit is odd for men and even for women. The card carries full name, address, profession, issuing office, date of birth, sex, and photograph, with issue and expiry dates on cards issued since 2009.

The card prints Arabic text and either Eastern Arabic or Western digits, and both are normal. The residential governorate on the card can also differ from the birth governorate in the number. Older cards print religion and a married woman's husband's name, while newer cards may omit them. The check digit's algorithm is not publicly documented, so the analysis uses structure and parity, and the validity term is seven years.

How Egyptian national ID forgeries are made

• Number structure and century

  The number should be fourteen digits with a first digit of two or three. A different length or an impossible first digit contradicts the structure.

• Birth-date decode

  Digits two to seven should form a real calendar date that agrees with the printed date of birth. An impossible or mismatched date exposes an edited number or date.

• Governorate-code check

  The governorate code should come from the valid set, which runs from 01 to 35 and 88 for births abroad. A code outside that set marks an invented number.

• Sex-parity check

  The thirteenth digit is odd for men and even for women. A parity that contradicts the printed sex is an internal inconsistency forgers rarely reconcile.

• Photo and expiry patching

  Portrait swaps and edited expiry or address lines leave cut-line edges, font passes, and resolution steps. An expiry that is not seven years after issue also contradicts the issuing rules.

What TamperCheck checks on an Egyptian national ID

TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class.

• Portrait substitution and face-swap analysis

  The document is isolated from whatever it was photographed on, then the portrait region is assessed against the card surface around it. A pasted or generated face rarely matches the substrate it was placed onto.

• Date and validity consistency

  Issue, expiry, and period dates are checked against one another and against the file's own creation metadata, which catches backdating and validity extension.

• Reference and document number checks

  Document, account, and reference numbers are checked for issuer format conformance and against every other place the same value appears on the page.

• And many more checks

  The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on an Egyptian national ID. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks.

Who verifies an Egyptian national ID, and why

Egyptian banks, fintechs, and telecom providers. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging.

How to verify an Egyptian national ID in 4 steps

1. 1

   Photograph both sides

   Capture the card flat at full resolution so the fourteen digits, dates, and address lines survive close analysis, including the code on the back.

2. 2

   Decode the number

   Split it into century, birth date, governorate, serial, and check digit, and compare the encoded date and the thirteenth digit with the printed date of birth and sex.

3. 3

   Weigh the issue and expiry

   Check that the expiry sits seven years after issue, and that older-card fields such as religion are not mixed into a newer layout.

4. 4

   Run a forensic check on the file

   The number carries the structural story, and the print carries the edit history. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks including national-number decoding and patch detection, returning a risk score from 0 to 100 with findings tied to specific regions of the image.

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