Are fake id cards legal or not?

In the world of fake ID cards what is Illegal and what is legal? If you were to order a Fake ID card on the internet would you be branded a criminal and have the police on your doorstep? What ways in using your fake ID card would make it illegal? Is the manufacture of fake ID cards illegal? There are a lot of unanswered questions about the use and production of fake ID cards so here we are going to set the record straight.

Illegal or not?

So is it illegal to have a fake ID card in your wallet? No it isn’t, even if it is a very good fake ID card that is possible to fool a person of authority if you just have it in your wallet or purse as a novelty item then this is perfectly legal. The producers of novelty ID cards state on their websites that these cards are for novelty purposes only and should not be used for anything other than this then neither you or the company that sold you the card are doing anything illegal. You could put novelty ID cards in the same context as a child’s pretend money or a pretend gun of a 4 year old. These are toys and novelty items and not to be used to commit a criminal offence. The company that sold you the novelty ID card is not committing a crime as they are just selling a card that as far as they are concerned is not being used for anything other than novelty purposes.

What will make these novelty ID cards illegal? Well if you decide that you are going to try and buy cigarettes or alcohol with you novelty ID card or make some kind of legal transaction and was caught by the police then this is a crime and the person could be prosecuted for presenting a forged document. As the company that sold you your novelty ID card was not aware of your intentions than they would not be prosecuted.

Police Resources

Some novelty ID card companies get shut down but it take a lot of police resources to prove that they are selling these products for non novelty purposes. If the police investigated and found out that you were supplying fake ID cards to illegal immigrants to get them in to the country then these people would be prosecuted but it would be a very long investigation.