Fake Fucked Gaijin Cards

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: Aichi police allege trio forged 3,000 alien registration cards
Three men forged about 3,000 alien registration cards as well as other official identification documents and sold them mostly to foreign residents, the Aichi Prefectural Police alleged Tuesday. The people who bought the documents, including passports, driver's licenses and school diplomas, are believed to be from more than 20 countries, primarily in Asia and Latin America, but also include the United States, Britain and Canada, they said...The three allegedly used personal computers and printers to forge the documents. Police found official watermark seal images of more than 100 municipal governments at their apartment in Meguro Ward, Tokyo. The case came to light when a Peruvian man was arrested in Aichi on suspicion of selling a fake alien card to a Bangladeshi in February. Police said they suspect the three are part of a massive forgery ring catering to foreigners in Japan illegally.

[aquamarine]

Shit, I shoulda sold them mine before immigration took it...

[FG Lurker]

Shit, I shoulda sold them mine before immigration took it...

And then have fun getting back into the country after "you" are arrested for hundreds of crimes.... I can see the mess at the airport immigration counter already.

[aquamarine]

Hrmm... touché!

[canman]

"Police found official watermark seal images of more than 100 municipal governments at their apartment in Meguro Ward, Tokyo."
I wonder where they got said water marked paper. I don' think you can just walk into any stationary store and pick up some.
I wonder how much they were selling them for?

[FG Lurker]

"Police found official watermark seal images of more than 100 municipal governments at their apartment in Meguro Ward, Tokyo."
I wonder where they got said water marked paper. I don' think you can just walk into any stationary store and pick up some.

Gov't worker with something to hide (or big money problems) + Yakuza = Blackmail = Whatever documents/supplies said Yakuza wants.

[homesweethome]

canman wrote:

I wonder how much they were selling them for?

50,000 yen for AR cards, 25,000 for J drivers licenses here in the boondocks last time I checked. It's a franchise business.

[Blah Pete]

50,000 yen for AR cards, 25,000 for J drivers licenses here in the boondocks last time I checked. It's a franchise business.

That is pretty cheap for a Gaijin card.
I sort of had an aqiaintance who knew someone that was doing forgeries of the old blue visa stamp in the passports. From what I remember they were charging around 10-Man and that was over 15 years ago.

[Taro Toporific]

canman wrote:

I wonder how much they were selling them for?

50,000 yen for AR cards, 25,000 for J drivers licenses here in the boondocks last time I checked. It's a franchise business.

Just for information purposes: A 'lost' US passport goes for a 100,000yen if the picture on it can pass for a non-whitebread hakujin (cafe au lait Afro-Americans excluded).

[Blah Pete]

A 'lost' US passport goes for a 100,000yen if the picture on it can pass for non-whitebread hakujin (cafe au lait Afro-Americans excluded).

First time I went to Thailand on vacation a friend told me that if you need money to sell your passport in bangkok and get a new one at the Embassy. Can't remember exactly what the going rate was but it was a lot of $$. That was back in the days when the picture was glued on.

You try that shiat these days and your picture will end up on CNN linking you with some terrorist org.

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: 64 arrested in major crackdown on forged passports, driver's licenses, ID cards

Police have arrested 64 people in a major forgery ring crackdown, uncovering data on thousands of fake foreigner registration cards, passports, driver's licenses, student ID cards and other identification, law enforcers said. Metropolitan Police Department and Nagano Prefectural Police investigators arrested four alleged members of the forgery ring, along with 60 brokers and customers, on suspicion of creating and using the forged official documents. It is reportedly one of the biggest crackdowns on forged identification in Japan. Police suspect as many as 10,000 alien registration certificates may have been forged and sold. In June this year, police arrested four Chinese men and women, including a 47-year-old man accused of forging a Japanese driver's license for another Chinese suspect. A 30-year-old Chinese woman known as "Boss" is believed to have headed the forgery ring, but she has gone into hiding.

When police searched an apartment in Yokohama's Kanagawa-ku that the forgery ring had used as a hideout, they seized a computer and found it contained forged data for about 4,000 certificates, documents and identification cards. Included was forged image data for 1,976 alien registration certificates for people in 32 prefectures including Hokkaido, Aichi, Osaka, and Kumamoto. The computer also contained forged data for 1,607 passports, 335 residence certificates and certificates of employment, 162 student identification cards including cards for private universities and technical colleges, and 125 drivers' licenses for 12 countries including Japan, China, South Korea and Indonesia. Police suspect all of the forged documents were sold to customers. Based on receipts for delivered items, police discovered the names and addresses of Chinese suspects to track down dozens of brokers and customers. Police said the forgery group had taken orders for forged identification from brokers and Chinese residing illegally in Japan, and sent the counterfeit items through door-to-door delivery services in return for cash payments.

Police quoted the suspects as saying they had sold passports and alien registration certificates in sets for 35,000 yen, and sold driver's licenses for 8,000 yen each. The total amount of money the fraud ring had made from the sales was unclear, but based on the number of plastic cards found at the hideout, police suspect that fake alien registration certificates for about 10,000 people had been sold over a one-year period starting from January last year. When questioned by police, the arrested 47-year-old fraud ring member said he had received the original images for the alien registration certificates and driver's licenses from the "Boss."