Thai-Land of faking

[Jman888]

Fake Singapore driver's licence just like the real deal except no hologram

By Nirmal Ghosh, Indochina Bureau Chief In Bangkok

Published on Mar 13, 2014

A real Singapore driving licence (right) next to a fake one made in Bangkok. -- ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH

Khao San Road, crammed with budget tourists from across the world, has long been a backpacker hub for South-east Asia.

The streets are lined with restaurants, guest houses, travel agents, and shops selling cheap cotton clothes and souvenirs.

Police lounge at either end of the 200m street, keeping an eye on things.

Itinerant Indian "fortune tellers" and Nepali tattoo touts lurk and accost passers-by. "You have a very lucky face," one Indian "fortune teller" told me.

Normally, the handful of vendors making fake identity cards is quite visible. On Wednesday though, I had to hunt for one. I asked a Nepali boy who was trying to find customers for a tattoo shop, and he took me to the man, this time set slightly back from the street, at a discreet table with two stools.

He was a Thai man, in a blue shirt and with glasses. There was an air of edginess from the start. "What country?" he asked me. I told him I was Indian and he looked incredulous. But then he produced a large album - the kind used to hold business cards - for me to flip through.

In it were well over 100 samples of identity cards, from driving licences to student passes to airline crew passes and many others. There was even an Interpol ID card, and Singapore IC. When I expressed surprise at the Interpol card he immediately gave a start and said "Are you Interpol? Are you Interpol?" but I laughed it off.

I chose a Singapore driving licence and a Qatar Airways crew card. They cost 800 baht (S$31) each, he informed me, and would take an hour and a half to make. I gave him a couple of passport photographs I had brought for the occasion, and he said that for the airline card, he could alter the photograph to have me in a suit and tie.

I asked him quietly if he knew anyone who could make a passport, and he said he did not. I asked whether he made Thai IDs and he said: "I don't do Thai."

This was something a law enforcement source had told me - the fake ID peddlers don't ever make Thai IDs, which is why the police leave them alone. It is also probable that they pay the police, my source said - entirely believable given the environment and the trade they are in.

When I arrived at the appointed hour, the man asked me again "Are you police?" I laughed and shook my head. Then he asked where I lived and what I was doing in Bangkok. He seemed satisfied by what I told him.

Then a young South Asian man who seemed to be helping him appeared and pressed a folded piece of paper into my hand. Inside were the cards.

In my hands were a spanking new Singapore driving licence and a Qatar Airways crew card. The only difference from the real Singapore licence was the absence of the holograms. The fake ID vendors do not seem to be able to make cards with holograms.

Yet, on the face of it, the cards were startlingly realistic.

"If any enforcement officer just takes a quick look, or Googles these documents to compare them, they are unlikely to spot any problem," said my enforcement source.

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after plastic surgery, you need a new ID to be convincing

 

Edited March 14, 2014 by Jman888

[Toothiewabbit]

Liddat, some kena kantong probably resort to this :(

[Tigerwoods]

I noob ... which one is real ?

[Jman888]

I noob ... which one is real ?

 

 

oops just added under the photo, right is real.

[Sp4wn]

not bad le ... botak and so old ... only born 1981!!!! LOL

[SuPerBoRed]

oops just added under the photo, right is real.

 

wah.. need to clarify meh?

that kind of look.. how to be born in 1981??

[Wt_know]

Khao San Road ... sibei notorious man

the apex of fake certificates printing service ... anything is possible

[Tigerwoods]

 

 

oops just added under the photo, right is real.

I go there to make also for my daughter son and my pet Nemo fish

[Jman888]

 

wah.. need to clarify meh?

that kind of look.. how to be born in 1981??

 

 

never heard of ang mo chao lao

[Mcf777]

stupid right.

still under probation. less than 1 year, how to rent vehicle?

kam lannn....to get such useless license

Edited March 14, 2014 by Mcf777

[Jman888]

stupid right.

still under probation. less than 1 year, how to rent vehicle?

kam lannn....to get such useless license

 

 

that was a sample, you can put any date you want mah.

[Mockngbrd]

They cannot replicate how crappy the plastic laminate is on the real driver's license. Turn brown like pang sai paper liao.

[Evillusion]

Thailand is a 3rd world country....so the fakes are also 3rd world. U go 1st world.....u have the right connections u can make fake id like the real ones....hollogram included. The case where our banks had been cheated with fake credit card recently is enough proof to show Thailand fakes are really behind time!

[Myxilplix]

They cannot replicate how crappy the plastic laminate is on the real driver's license. Turn brown like pang sai paper liao.

 

True story.

[Jman888]

They cannot replicate how crappy the plastic laminate is on the real driver's license. Turn brown like pang sai paper liao.

 

 

they did it on purpose, they are meant to fade and turn brown, those didn't mean fake.

[ChickenMob]

I saw one from some friend in Malaysia one is the exact same as our SG driving licence.

 

with the holograms also could not tell the difference from mine also other than it looks damn new.

[Rustyz]

They cannot replicate how crappy the plastic laminate is on the real driver's license. Turn brown like pang sai paper liao.

 

Maybe the thai one are of better quality. can save $19 and fast 1 an half hour only, my sister have to wait for 1 mth before she receive her replacement driver license

 

what a steal. lol

[13177]

They want fake sg passport i understand, but why they also want fake sg driving licence?