CBS Chicago – by Dave SaviniFake driver’s licenses are flooding our market and could pose a real threat.
2 Investigator Dave Savini reports these bogus licenses are being produced overseas and sold online.
State and federal officials say they want to shut down the sales of them.
Bogus licenses are seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in big numbers, says Chief Customs Officer Brian Bell.
“We have hundreds of boxes of these,” he says. “They are all containing counterfeit driver’s licenses.”
They are incredible fakes. Smuggled into this country by high-tech forgery rings that have mastered the details so well, they could lead to critical security threats. Each license costs about $150.
They’re smuggled inside boxes of tea sets and jewelry from China; one intercepted batch was headed to a group of 20 students at the same college.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White says he is amazed by the level of these fakes.
One concern if the potential homeland security issue.
“And that’s why I’m not going to stand idly by and allow this activity to continue without doing something about it,” he says.
White’s team investigating these latest seized shipments includes Tyler DuMontelle.
“Instead of a generic hologram, they are imitating our actual holograms,” says DuMontelle. “These are some of the best I’ve seen.”
Says Bell: “The question is: Is it good enough to get you on an airplane?”
It is hard to know because the fakes are that good, say experts. However, the Secretary of State’s Office says the fakes have failed the laser and ultra-violet light tests.
For those who are underage, buying one of these fakes can lead to a year-long suspension of their real license. Some college students have been kicked out of school over this issue.
Only $150
Hell thats about the same price as the dmv but without standing in line for 6 hours and taking the day off from work just to find out they dont except “that” form of birth cert from a different state. Rinse and repeat.
They make such good fakes because they make ALL of the IDs that the govs use. Its not hard to print the address and picture. Hell just look at the people working at the dmv. Aint a scholar in the whole lot.
Communist DHS is probably in cahoots with the Communist Chinese on the driver’s license! What do you want to bet most of the names are Mexican/Latino names?
I was thinking the exact same thing.
sounds like THEY have a problem
I dont care about any fake ID’s , I dont feel we should be required to carry any ID any ways
as far as im concerned all ID’s are fake and worthless , I hope this shows to others how stupid the Drivers Licence and ID scams of this country are
“papers please”
I hope they do get out into circulation and i hope it raises hell with their system
No.
What this is about will be a push to “the only obvious solution” – a microchip license, along with an M/C ‘National ID’.
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Over the last 15 years banksters have ripped off Americans thousands of dollars by manipulating interest rates on everything from homes to car loans. They sold mortgages to homeless drunks and drug addicts and then made casino bets those loans would fail…which they did…making bankers rich. Are they being prosecuted? NO. But a college kid who buys a fake ID so he can go to the bar with his friends is thrown out of his school and his drivers license suspended. I have a memo to the over zealous prosecutor going after 19 year old students trying to get fake ID’s. In my day if you didn’t try to get into a bar or nightclub when you were 19 then something was wrong with you. Boring and no balls.
O China! We have our own fake ID’s and we sell them from our local Sheriff’s departments. You’re a little late to the game, aren’t you?
They would have gotten away with it, too, but whoever put the finishing touches on them must have been putting in overtime (on the opium pipe), and they stamped ‘Made in China’ on the backs.