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Who remembers having fake ID?

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NCSQ · 10/02/2023 00:04

When I was a teen it was a big deal. You had to know the right kid in the playground, give them a passport photo and a tenner and they would get you a fake driver's licence mocked up. It looked dodgy as hell but meant that we could get into the pub and drink WKD to our heart's content.

What fake ID did you have? Is it even still a thing??

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Allp · 10/02/2023 00:11

I bought mine off a mega sketchy website in about 2003/4, good times, it would get me into an equally sketchy club with a revolving dance floor.

ShinyPikachu · 10/02/2023 00:13

I never had a fake ID. In fact I didn't have any photo ID at all (real or fake) until I went to uni at 18 and got my matriculation card. And I was going out to pubs and clubs from 16. I was never actually asked for ID until I was 21.

Somehow at 17 my friend and I managed to convince the person at the train station ticket office that we were both under 16 for children's tickets then we went to the next city and straight to a pub where they were IDing almost everyone but didn't ID us. Those were the days.

FloorWipes · 10/02/2023 00:14

I had a “European Driving Permit” circa 2004. Joyous times.

FourAndTwentyBlackbirdsBakedInAPie · 10/02/2023 00:14

It was so easy in the 90s, I had a friend with a laminator and he knocked up a work ID for me and it was accepted everywhere, if they even bothered to ID me. I was out at the pubs since 13, and I was very young looking too.

Not so easy these days.

Cryingbutstilltrying · 10/02/2023 00:15

I wrote a different date of birth on my NUS card in the early 90s. Handwritten ffs. But it had a photo so I was all good, and then laminated 🤣
It worked in the pub and at the supermarket, but then I did look older than I was in real life too.

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NCSQ · 10/02/2023 00:16

Before I got a fake one made, I just used my sister's driving licence. She is five years older with a different hair colour but no one seemed to care.

It WAS easy in the 90s!

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 10/02/2023 00:17

Photocopied my (handwritten) birth certificate and changed the dates. It was a shit attempt but luckily the bouncers at my local club didn’t care.

SweetBonanza · 10/02/2023 00:19

I had a fake ID that I made myself - bought a blank card then stuck my picture in it and stuck the film over the top. I was very proud of it. Sadly no one ever asked to see it despite the fact I was drinking in pubs from the age of about 15. We even used to go to the pub in our school uniform during the school day and got served!!!!

Banterbusdriver · 10/02/2023 00:20

Young person's railcard, photoshopped birthdate.

handsoffate · 10/02/2023 00:27

I ‘adjusted’ the date on my student id, but I don’t think I was ever asked for it anyway despite going nightclubbing as a young-looking 16 year old. It was the eighties and a combination of very little in the way of clothing and a smile for the door staff worked wonders.

speedy49 · 10/02/2023 00:34

I work in a bar (UK) - nowadays we get Citizenship cards that are 9 times out of 10 fake as they're easier to forge than drivers licenses, and easier to get away with as they're less common so many people wouldn't know what a real one looks like. They've started putting a QR code on the back which, when scanned, on the real ones take you to a government link that verifies the person is 18+.
On the fakes, the link takes you to the government page but the persons details don't come up

SpookyBlackCat · 10/02/2023 00:39

Yes! I was talking to someone about this the other day. All you needed was a photo, a computer and a laminator and it was so easy to make a fake ID.

I never did it, but I spent some time in Thailand in the 90s and you could buy almost anything like a passport, university degree, press pass, etc. It was all so lax back then. Now it’s really hard to fake your ID. Everything is so strict!

UselessExLondoner · 10/02/2023 00:45

Got mine out from an ad in a back of a magazine! You had to hand write the details on, stick on a passport photo and then it had a self sealing laminated pouch! Worked perfectly.

This was circa 2000-2001 and in a sleepy town in south east England. Might not have been as effective clubbing in London. 🤣

Also had a photocopy of a friend of a friends birth certificate when I was 15 so I could by fags. 🤣

SirenSays · 10/02/2023 00:46

My first one was awful! I bought it off a stoner in the park. I had to wait ages for it and then it turned out he cropped the top of my head off! I spent about £45 getting a better one and then a few months before my birthday a jealous friend stole it.

Ladybird69 · 10/02/2023 01:00

I bought fake Id. They printed it out wrong, my birthday is 30/01 they put 30/02. I used that Id for years and not one person questioned it lol.

notangelinajolie · 10/02/2023 01:04

I was 16 in 1980 and age ID wasn't really a thing. Pub landlords were happy to serve you as long as your weren't disruptive and nightclubs didn't really care. I remember going to nightclubs when I was 15 and getting the last bus home at 2am. They very rarely asked your age and if they did you just said 18 and that was that.

QueefQueen80s · 10/02/2023 07:31

handsoffate · 10/02/2023 00:27

Grim.

ButtOutBobsMum · 10/02/2023 07:45

I remember not needing fake ID. I was a teen in the 80s and was drinking in pubs from 15 and clubbing from 16. Don't ever remember being asked my age, let alone to prove it 😳

leafittome · 10/02/2023 07:46

My mum made a copy of my birth certificate and changed the dates to age me 2 years (irresponsible parenting!). That worked for a year and then photo ID became for common place and I needed to up my game.

WeCome1 · 10/02/2023 07:47

I had an ISIC card - some European student card thing. I don’t think I was ever asked for it.

MuseThrower · 10/02/2023 07:50

NUS card, hand written with the wrong DOB on it.

There was a queue outside the NUS office for them - the rep was an Upper Sixth who relished the power 😂

Tinkeytonkoldfruit · 10/02/2023 07:51

Ahhhh fake ID. I remember making my own to replicate my college ID - didn't even use a passport photo just cut my head out of a picture, blue paper either side of a train ticket and some stickyback plastic and jobs a good un! Well I mean it looked crap but no-one questioned it.
My less successful moment was taking my friends birth certificate which she'd done the old photocopy and tipex job on it, all was going well until they asked for something to prove it was mine and out I popped with my National insurance card with my name on - not my finest moment.
Also why did bouncers think asking you your birth sign would be a good way of checking your age - I changed the year I was born not the month!!

Userusing1 · 10/02/2023 07:51

I didn't need a fake ID as I was a teen in the 70s, you just had to remember an appropriate date of birth if asked 😁 We went to the pubs and clubs from about 15, X films from 14, I wasn't ever asked my age as I was tall😂

4thonthe4th · 10/02/2023 07:52

NCSQ · 10/02/2023 00:16

Before I got a fake one made, I just used my sister's driving licence. She is five years older with a different hair colour but no one seemed to care.

It WAS easy in the 90s!

I just used my cousins. She reported hers lost and got a new one. That was a common ploy iirc.

usernamechanged1 · 10/02/2023 07:53

I got mine from a website in the early 00’s. I can’t remember the name of the site but you could choose fake things like “European Citizen ID Card”, “European Driving Permit”, “EU Identification Permit” and so on.

Can’t believe they ever worked. 😂

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