Teens Can Get Fake IDs In A Few Keystrokes

What To Do When Your Parents Won't Quit Drinking
About 11 million American children have alcoholic parents, according to the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
Read more »

Fake ID's are Contributing to More Than 1400 Deaths
TA3 fights Fake ID and Fake driver licences sites. Underage drinking accounts for the death of over 1400 college students being killed annually. 600,000 college students who have been drinking assault students each year. there are over 70,000 cases of sexual assault and date rape reported each year where drinking was involved.
Read more »

Getting Help is the First Step
Listing over 30 help organizations: Underage Drinking - Teen drinking and alcoholism - Reporting fake id templates - Troubled Teen Help
Read more »

Alcoholism - How to help your friend
Because alcoholism is a disease and not a behavior, chances are that you won't be able to change your friend's actions, but you can show your love and support.
Read more »

Sobering Statistics
More than 10 million current drinkers in the United States are between the ages of 12-20. - On average, young people begin drinking at 13.1 years of age. - By the time they are high school seniors, more than 80 percent have used alcohol and approximately 62 percent have been drunk.
Read more »

Do the drinking test! Do I drink too much?
Sometimes a habit becomes so familiar, we have a hard time detecting signs that the once-comfortable pattern has in fact become a problem. This quick and confidential test can help you determine if your drinking habits put you at risk of alcohol abuse
Read more »

Stopping Teen Age Drinking and the sales of Fake IDs and Fake drivers licenses - Welcome to TA3!

We fight sales of fake ID papers like fake ID cards and fake drivers licenses.
Welcome to TA3!

Test your knowledge about drugs and alcohol and smoking.

Dewine, Dodd introduce bill to prevent underage drinking

July 21, 2006

Fake ID cards 'openly available'

June 22, 2006

Pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking

May 27, 2006

Police support new Fake ID card scheme

April 3, 2006

Senate passes law hoping to ban Internet fake IDs

February 13, 2006

Fake ID ring cracked

November 6, 2005

Underage drinking worse at prom and spring breaks

January 23, 2005

Teen drinking shocker - Underage drinking troublespot

Januari 3, 2005

Identity fraud - Fighting back on Fake ID fraud

November 27, 2004

Fake driver licenses easy to obtain

September 9, 2004

Teens can get fake IDs in a few keystrokes on Web

May 17, 2004

Teenage drinking is a widespread epidemic in the United States

April 23, 2004

Harmful effects of underage drinking

December 9, 2003

TA3 Mission

Teenage drinking is a serious problem with real consequences. Our hopes are to help you, and the ones you love, to avoid the pain and suffering caused by alcohol addiction. We hope you find this site helpful as our desire is to help, encourage and support you and your friends to a new found happiness and a clean and sober lifestyle.

Teens Can Get Fake IDs In A Few Keystrokes On Web

Mobile, Baldwin highest county rates for juvenile arrests related to alcohol

SAVANNAH, GA. - Above the bar at Wet Willy's hang hundreds of counterfeit driver's licenses hailing from New Jersey to Florida.

The collage of bemused mugs constitutes a lineup of underage barflies, nabbed at the door of this popular riverfront lounge and sent skulking back out into the night. For the bouncers, busting underage drinkers is almost a certain satisfaction: Here at Wet Willy's, they average about eight fake IDs a weekend.

Such trophies point to a sober reality on the nightclub scene from Portsmouth, N.H., to Atlanta: Fifteen years after states began raising the drinking age to 21, the clamor for fake IDs has only increased.
New hologram and encoding technologies invented to curb the fake-ID market have, in fact, backfired. Cheap Internet templates, and high-quality printers and card-pressing machines, have led to a steep rise in fake-ID websites and ID "chop shops." That has police and motor vehicle departments across the country - to say nothing of the FBI - scrambling to thin the ranks of college students, illegal immigrants, and outright thieves sporting wallets full of high-quality fake identification.

While the FBI worries more about identity theft and credit-card fraud, the explosion in the fake-ID market is a bold warning about a world where false identities are becoming easy to create. And with theft and forgery becoming more anonymous via the Web, the trend is only becoming more pervasive.

"It's just getting easier and easier to get a fake ID," says Nathan Grassi, a bartender at Savannah's Club One.

Of the various forms of identity theft or forgery, fake IDs used for procuring adult drinks are by far the most popular - and ubiquitous. While it's a relatively victimless crime - the bars, after all, get paid - it's indicative of a deeper trend affecting everyone from banks to retail stores.

In four separate stings during spring break in Florida this year, police netted more than 10,000 fake IDs and arrested 350 minors. By that estimate, police say there are likely millions of fake IDs in circulation throughout the country today. Indeed, some estimate that fully half of all highschoolers today carry some sort of forged ID.

Tougher penalties

In most states, having a fake ID amounts to a traffic violation, although many states are ratcheting up the penalty. At the same time, police acknowledge that prosecutions are unusual - both for fake-ID users and forgers. One Web forger found guilty in Florida earlier this year was sentenced to cleaning up a local highway.

After introducing its new ID just two years ago, Georgia is already thinking about adding more security features. North Carolina now has a different color scheme for underage drivers. Maryland plans to introduce vertical driver's licenses for minors next year.

What's more, ID scanners that can read the new licenses' bar codes are available to bars for as little as $45. And earlier this year, a new federal law aimed at Internet fake-ID sites cut the number from 10,000 to 2,000.

_{© 2004 Teens agains alcohol abuse (TA3) - Fighting Fake ID's and Alcohol abuse

Email | Drinking Parents | Fighting Fake ID | Alcohol - Getting Help Help a drinking friend

Drinking statistics | Alcohol abuse test | Add your link | Supporters & Friends | Fake ID Templates | Fake Drivers License}