Abstract: A system and method for preventing government identification-based fraud is disclosed. When a government identification submission session is initiated, several layers of security checks are performed to ensure that the user behind the session is not a fraudster. First, a session check is performed to ensure that the user device has not initiated more than a predetermined number of sessions within a predetermined time. Next, an attempt check is made in order to ensure that the user has not made more than a predetermined number of government identification submission attempts during the current session. Next, a dual-authentication check is performed to ensure that the phone number provided for the dual-authentication has not been used more than a maximum number of times during a recent period of time. And lastly, a general risk assessment is performed to look for any remaining high-risk flags.