• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t falsifying a passport some kind of major felony? How indeed would they use it without getting arrested? Lol

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      2 months ago

      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1543

      It’s a federal ID, not a state ID. I assume that makes it a federal crime based on that link above.

      It was super easy to make a fake ID out of my passport when I was a kid. I scanned the photo page, Photoshoped it and printed it out on a color printer. I cut out the picture on the printout with a razor, covered it with a lamination sheet and stuck it on top of the real ID. After a quick trim, nobody could tell the difference.

      The real trick was that hardly anyone uses a passport as an ID at a bar so bouncers and bartenders didn’t know what to look for in a fake. (It still looked very real for what was almost 25 years ago or more.)