Posted on 08/09/2020 8:04:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Advances in technology may have made counterfeiting more difficult but crooks keep finding a way to stay in business.
In fact, federal customs officers have seized 1,513 shipments from overseas containing fraudulent documents—19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses—just at Chicago O'Hare International Airport this year through the end of June.
Most of the shipments came from Hong Kong and mainland China, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Other shipments came from South Korea and the U.K.
"These counterfeit driver's licenses can lead to disastrous consequences," CBP's Ralph Piccirilli said in a statement. "Criminal organizations use these counterfeit IDs to avoid attracting attention to their illegal activities."
CBP said most of the fake IDs were for college-age students. Many had the same photo but different names. But one alarming discovery was that the barcode on the fake Michigan licenses actually worked, CBP said.
"These fraudulent identity documents can lead to identity theft, worksite enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, fraud linked to immigration-related crimes such as human smuggling and human trafficking," CBP said in a news release, adding that, "these documents can be used by those individuals associated with terrorism to minimize scrutiny from travel screening measures."
Piccirilli, the acting area port director in Chicago, called the counterfeits "very realistic" and praised the officers for being able to scope out the fake documents and stop them from getting to the buyers.
In April, CBP said that customs officers at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport were seeing an increase in shipments of fake documents. Officers inspecting international shipments had found about 2,000 fake IDs in the prior year and a half.
Dallas Area Port Director Timothy Lemaux pointed out that fake IDs also pose a risk to the buyer regardless of your intentions because you're giving out your personal information to criminals overseas.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5ny.com ...
With 85 days until the presidential election, fears are increasing that foreign adversaries, such as China, Russia, and Iran, could attempt to undermine the election.
Foreign states, more specifically China, could use covert and overt measures to sway votes from President Trump.
Already, there was an incident in June, when Chinese video app TikTok saw users band together and falsely reserve tickets for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which resulted in an embarrassingly low turnout. As a result, the administration when on the offensive against the app and has since signed an executive order to ban it next month.
China could also be attempting to undermine the election by sending counterfeit driver's licenses to the U.S. So far, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at Chicago O'Hare International Airport have intercepted close to 20,000 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses shipped from China this year
There went 20K Biden votes.
Why do fake IDs already have faces on them? Did all those people place orders?
They are widely available by street vendors anyway ...
We’re concerned he’ll vote Democrat in this election.
The license pictured has already expired.
The license in the photo expired four months ago. What good is a fake expired license?
I don't think a license has to be current to be used as voter ID. I accidentally handed the poll worker my expired license last time and no one said anything about it. I didn't realize what I had done until I opened my wallet to put my license up once I was back in my truck.
What does this mean? For barcodes to work they have to integrate with some data base with more detailed information. Is the data base corrupted?
When you scan a barcode to buy a gallon of milk, you are just scanning the product number, that number then is linked to the product description, price, relevant discounts, inventory programs etc. in a larger data base. This may be a VERY large problem.
Racist to ask why the picture does not match the licensee.
Address label: DNC Washington,DC?
Well,...you know what they say.....
Yep, that is exactly what happened.
Ohhh!
l8r
Maybe the fake mail-in ballots slipped through. Still a net gain.
Heh heh. The birthday is 4/20. Do these counterfeiters have a sense of humor?
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