Rental Scam: Scammer provides their bank info- how does that work?

Either Confederation of Australian Motor Sport or Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (the first two I found).

Probably Certified Anti-Moneylaundering Specialist.

Chartered Asset Manager

Yep.

And, no you can’t just open a bank account with a cheap fake ID. They will run you thru a info data service. It will come back as not matching.

You could steal a real persons ID, but then they email/phone/mail verify . So then- which email/phone/mail do you use? Theirs? They will say “I didnt open that account”. Yours? It wont match.

Wait, is that what anybody has to go through to open any new account at any bank these days (in the United States at least)?

There are often relaxed provisions for young children. I know that in some places, banks will accept verification of identity from the school for “school accounts” for kids under 12.

…apart from that …

It has been more than a decade since I had to open a bank account.

However, at a time when my credit rating was so bad a bank declined to let me open a savings account, I had no problem at all becoming the sole officer of a corporation with a checking account.
Often scammers are not relying on authorities being unable to learn who they are, but rather on layers of bureaucracy and extradition agreements.
Just because you can prove that your money was stolen by Jim Greene who lives in Outer Slobovia does not mean that the government of Outer Slobovia cares, or will in any way help you to recover your losses.

More or less. Patriot Act. But for those of us not scammers, it’s really not that hard.