ID fraudsters tripped up by 'schoolboy error'

Computers? Check! Scanners? Check! Printers? Check! Brains? ...I said Brains?....

By Will Sturgeon, 25 June 2002 07:15

NEWS A group of Australian schoolboys producing fake IDs using school computer equipment have been caught because they used pictures of themselves in their school uniform. The fake driving licences were of a "high quality" according to Queensland's licensing minister Merri Rose, but the school uniform worn in the pictures alerted door staff outside a pub who then contacted the police and confiscated the IDs. According to a report on Ananova at least six boys, aged between 16 and 17, were involved in the high-tech/low IQ blunder.

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