Glossary Of Fake ID Terms & Make a fake ID guide
Making your own novelty fake ID can be an expensive endeavour - below we have listed links to some sites selling ID card printer systems and supplies.
Plastic Card Printing Machines
If you have a spare £2-3k, you can buy a plastic card printing system from any one of these sites.
Remember printing illegal fake id is, well, illegal!.
Glossary of Fake ID terms
Real ID Cards
Real ID cards are printed by organisations like USIt, NUS or the Connexions card. also the Prove-It card, made by some anti-booze company. Driving licences are real ID cards aswell.
These are illegal to copy and anyone selling them is most likely a scammer.
Illegal Fake ID Cards
Illega fake Id cards are copies of existing cards like driver licences DVLA cards, prove it cards. Anyone offering these is likely to be a scammer.
Novelty Fake ID Cards
Novelty fake Id cards are completely made up, the person who designed the cards owns the copyright.
Glossary of Plastic Card Industry Terms
I got confused by all the phrases used in fake ID sites so I copied this from one of them, it explains all the words that are used in various fake id websites
Magnetic Stripes
Magnetic stripes are the black or brown stripes that you see on the back of bank cards ect. Some fake id sites encode them, most don't as there aren't any readers in bars.
Holographic Overlays
Hologram printed all over the surface of the card, kind of see through. Is a good security feature and makes fake id's very effective.
HDP Plastic Card Printer
A way of printing cards so that the quality is very high. For the lot of plastic cards I have, the HDP ones look the best.
Signature Panel
A place for you to sign. Sometimes fake ID sites scan in your signature and print it, this really makes a difference in how effective your card is..
PVC Card
PVC means plastic, plastic card is good for a fake ID, far better than laminated ID cards.
Barcode
WAy of storing names/ number in coded series of stripes, like on packet of cigs etc.
Hologram
Holograms are foil that reflect light and or a three dimensional image out to the eye. A very good security feature.