We also built a case management system so support teams can manually review cases, approve/decline them, or override decisions when needed. Automation handles most cases, but humans can step in for the edge cases.
Instead, this should be handled not by fudging identity verification but by skipping it and maybe tagging the skip event with some verified identities of the people authorizing the skip.
This. Left unchecked, an entourage around a fake "celebrity" can get pretty far.