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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. |
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