Fake ID -Scribed by Lord Narayana                                       1997
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So you want to change who you are for some reason. You might want to evade 
the law, or just buy some smokes and beer. There could be problems with your 
drivers record. The possibilites are endless. At any rate, there's really no 
point in changing your drivers liscence to add a few years onto your age, 
because if some cops pull you over, you're busted if he checks up on it. 
You can probably tell the liscence office that you lost your wallet, and get
them to issue a new one, but that still doesn't change your name or anything
else. Being bored one night, I came up with a quick plan for new id, and
it can be achieved in anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour. All you need to 
do this, is half a brain (left or right, doesn't matter) and a few things you
can rip off from the store. 

Find the following: fax machine, scissors, white out, felt ink pen, stamps,
                    ruler, bleach, Q-tips, half a brain         

Most people save their birth records. It's usually your parents who do. If
you were born in a hospital, then it should be on a nicely printed sheet
of paper, with a few people's signatures on it, as well as your city of birth,
your parent's names, their country of birth, and a few other menial things.
try asking your parent's nicely, if they would be willing to show you yours,
and tell you a bit about when you were born. They shouldn't hesitate to pull
out the albums, and your old records. Just make sure your know where they
place the birth cirtificate. Not the laminated card, but rather something like
the big long sheet with a gold stamp on it, and your footprints. Along
with thiat, should be another sheet of paper, probably photocopied should the
hosiptals keep the origionals with all the information I listed above.
It should say "Certificate of live birth" on the top. 

Take the fax machine, and copy it through. Now you have a fax of your 
origional birth certificate as well as the origional copy. (We'll call
this copy one.) Run it though the machine again. Now you have two copies. 
(We'll call this copy two.) The problem is, is that you need to alter it a 
little. What you will be taking advantage of, is the clarity of your fax, 
and the "computer" printout of it. It is unable to distinguish between a lot 
of the lines, so they either come through as being really obvious, or they 
do not show up at all. You can notice this yourself, by looking closely at 
the writing of the faxed copy, and comparing it to your origional.

Take the scissors, and cut carefully all the letters, from copy one, that 
you are going to have to change. If you are just after your DOB, then look 
for the nubmers you want to change it to. If you were born in 1980, and want 
to change it to 1978, then you would look for both a 7 and an 8 and cut them 
out. Likewise, if you want to change your name. It is recommended that you 
change the serial numbers on it as well. You can even do it with other 
people's handwriting. You will have to cut the letters finely, and not have 
a lot of paper left surrounding them. The reason for this, is because you 
want to simulate it as to look as if a typewriter had done it. If it is 
uneven, or the letters are not showing through clearly, then it will look 
like crap and you will look like a dumbass trying to pull this off.

For the typed letters you want to change, it is sometimes better to stick a 
bit of white out on copy two, so they do not show through if the letter does 
not fully cover it all up. With your glue, put a little dab on the back of 
the letters (it might be best to use tweesers to handle the cut letter.) 
Then, carefully take the letter you cut out, and put it on the whited out 
area. Make sure the underneath is not at all visible, or else you will have a 
few lines show up around the letters and it will not look realistic. Don't 
worry about glue, however, the whiteout can cover it up if it shows through 
later when you copy it again. Just blot and wipe off any excess, so you don't 
have glue blotches all over the copy two.Change all the numbers on the second 
copy, your name, all the rest you need to, using the cut letters from the 
first faxed copy onto the second. To align them naturally, it is best to use 
edge of a ruler, to maintain that they are all straight and together. It 
obviously would not look natural should one work be out of alignment
with another at the other end of the line, so make sure you watch for this.

However, if you haven't a hope in hell of passing for over 18, and you 
intend to use this file for that purpose, then I'd say that there is just 
no point. Nobody will belive you on a fax, unless you can actually get 
some sort of picture to this file for you, and you can only get 
yourself in trouble. Move onto the next file.

Anyhow, so you've redone your identification card, and changed everything
you want to. Run it through the fax again. This is copy three. It might 
appear a little bit faint, but that's okay. Just take the bic ink pen (not 
ballpoint) and go over slightly each of the fine letters on copy two. You'll 
have to compare them a bit. Don't worry if some do not show up at all. This is
a commonality wih use of a fax.

If there are any faint lines between letters you have spliced, then just put 
a bit of whiteout between the letters and it should cover up nicely.  Then, 
take the copy two, and run it through it again. You should now have you're 
own fake id. It won't have your picture on it, but that's okay. Most people 
will accept it. You're better off using a fax, because most photocopiers will 
show the whiteout, and it will look phony. Also, you can add a few other 
things, like in fine print, where the fax was from and stuff, just to make 
it look origional. Make sure you have an adequate story to go along with the 
fax. 

Things like, I had to take a few tests for applying at Mount Royal, lost my 
wallet and got a fax of my birth certificate from my parents... no one will 
think that you got a fax from a hospital in some other city, and that you've 
been able to change it. Some of the other things which work are, "I was 
spending a few weeks with some buddies of mine, and I lost my wallet on the
Transit System. I got my parents to fax me my birth certificate so I could
go out to the bars with them." If you do give a story, make sure you stick
with it, and don't be hesitant about it. If you believe yourself, then others
will have a better chance of believing you.

If you are too lazy to spend the hour it takes, then you can go ahead and 
modify your driver's license. To do this, you can rip off some nail polish
remover from your mom, and put a fine coating over the year you were born in.
Then, slowly scratch it off, so that only the ink gets removed. Then, go get
from Shoppers Drug Mart some stencils which you can rub off onto your card.
Put the numbers where they should, rub the back, and they will come off onto
the plasic id. The letters will vary slightly in size in comparison to the 
others on the card, but it doesn't matter. Most bars are dimly lit, so no one
should notice. The only problem you'd encounter is if the police were to run 
a check on it, they would see the discrepancy bettween their records and yours.

If you want to take this a bit further, then it is very possible to create 
your own new identity.. To do this, you would have to start out very lightly, 
can gradually create your own person and give him the appearance of being 
realistic. Start out with things like a library card, and work up. That way, 
when you start out slowly, you can have other forms of id to back your 
fictitious character up. Now many people might ask for proof that you have 
been living in the same location for some time. The library is characteristic 
of this. Usually some piece of mail will do, so you can take you chances with 
real mail which you have, or, you can use your felt pen, and send yourself 
some mail.  Just say you were applying for a job at that place if anyone 
asks, and your letter got returned.. When writing your address, do NOT press 
to firmly on the envelope, you'll have to redo the lettering later. Also, 
make sure you write yourself a letter of a sort to go in the envelope. It's 
rather suspicious should someone recieve an empty envelope. Anyhow, it can 
take up to a week to recieve your own mail, so to make sure you don't fuck  
anything up later, send yourself three or four pieces. 

If you use a phony name, (ie. the one on your new birth records) then make 
sure you recieve the letter before your parents do. It would suck if they 
were to either open it (no return address) or if they were to drop it back 
in the mailbox, as a wrong address, or "moved address unknown". It might be 
best to send it to yourself, as you can remove the name as we shall see.

When you recieve your mail under your name, take some bleach and wet Qtip end
and lightly rub off the address, postal code, and whatever else you have to. 
Try filling in an abandoned house's address, if there is someone you are 
impersonating, or is your mark, then use theirs.. There may be a tint of 
yellow, but you have to over it agin with the bleach to get rid of this. I
sure hope you used the felt.. If you used a ballpoint, this will not work.
Don't use too much either, the paper will warp. After everything is cleared,
then fill in the information you have to. What you will have when you 
are finished, is proof of where you live, via altered mail.

Another easy method is to use your neighbours information, and steal their
mail. It facilitates everything greatly, but it might be a bit more difficult 
pull off. Let's say you go for a drivers, and they say that you are already 
registered with them, as being 20 years older. Then you would not be able to 
access that form of id. From my experience, it is best to go make your own
character.

Now that you've got a fax of your birth certificate, and proof of address,
get some more id cards showing that you are who you want to be... Try to 
get some other things like a community card, get all the library cards you 
want if you don't want to pay their overdue charges, even go get a learner's 
driver's licence, if you don't want an actual drivers. (I bring this up 
a lot because it is probably the best form of id you can get. No place will
ever turn that down, and it's also a picture id. This will add to the realism 
of who you now are if someone asks for other forms of id. Hell, go all the way, 
and get an ATM card, and as many credit cards as you can. But that you'd have 
to do at the end. You should aim for things which have your date of birth,
address, and picture. Try to even get your own SIN number. You can try to
collect two pensions with it later on, if they're still around.If you have 
a phriend with a fax, give him a fake copy as well. If you should run into 
troubles, then you can call him, say you phoned mommy to the people you're 
trying to scam, and let him fax (heh, long-distance) a copy of your new id. 
Just remember that sending a fax usually includes the senders number, and 
the recievers number.

So now that you're someone else, make sure that you also are this new person's
life, by having some sort of a story to go along with who you are. MEMORIZE 
it. There is nothing more embarassing than someone forgetting their own age 
or where they were born. Even worse, when someone asks you where you were 
living before, and you don't know shit all about that place, you can also 
look dumb. You can't avoid all questions about your past. Something you might 
want to consider, is using the same first name. Makes life easier if you are 
ever called by two people - one who knows the fake you, someone who knows
the real you - avoiding this and similar jams which might arise.

If you are smart enough, and manage to get your own money card, hang onto 
it for a while and make sure you always keep money on that card's account to 
make it look valid. In a year or three, you can ask to have your access 
upgraded so you may withdraw a higher limit. This may be tricky as they send 
you a new ATM card for this, but if you are successful, you can get quite a 
bit of cash on a long holiday in which no one will be around to check your 
deposits... Anyways, it'll help you get out of town faster if you would ever 
have the reason to run. 

A few things which may help you out, would be if you are making an id which
presents that you are from out of town, it may be wise to know a little about 
that area, about your parents (if you are living at home), why you are in 
this town, know your past and present address, about the fax and a story to
go with it, and to stick with the story, no matter what happens. I'm obviously
skipping over a lot, but the last point is what I will emphasize the most. If
you have a story, then believe it. The worst which will happen is that you 
may be refused, because you need picture id instead of a fax... 

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