What do a State Attorney, a Physician, a Professor and an Airline Pilot all have in common?  The Fake Identities of Frank Abagnale, Jr.  who claims to have created false identities, conned people, and passed bad company checks during the 1960’s, from ages 16 to 21.  Leonardo di Caprio personified the famous con man in the 1980 film, Catch Me If You Can.

Fast forward to just a week ago, and Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali impersonated Federal Agents, and allegedly provided members of the Secret Service gifts such as rent-free apartments, surveillance systems, a drone, law enforcement paraphernalia and more.

The men told residents of the Navy Yard apartment complex where they lived that they were renting out apartments paid for by the DHS and set up a surveillance system around the apartment complex in which residents could access it at any time from their mobile device.  The residents fell victim to the con artists who posed as law enforcement officials as their badges and IDs that looked perfectly legitimate to the untrained eye.  The residents believe that Taherzadeh and Ali had access to all of their personal information and access codes to everywhere in the building.

The Team at New England Computer Solutions (NECS) offers proven solutions to produce secure IDs. Fake IDs are becoming more sophisticated and easier to produce than ever before.  Being deceived by an illegitimate law enforcement officer or being a victim of Identity Theft is devastating, and long-lasting effects can result in insurmountable losses.  The financial loss of personal funds can be difficult to prove and time-consuming to recover.  Potential hires with less than stellar credit scores due to no fault of their own, may have a more difficult time securing employment with their less than stellar credit scores.

Coping with a stolen identity, loss of funds, and unable to find a job is a trifecta of mental stress.  Sorting through the documents to clear one’s name, re-establish credit worthiness, and return to the workforce takes an emotional toll on the victim, leading to a total disruption of a person’s life.

This transcends to the business and government levels as well with penalties, liability, and establishment reputation at stake.  Law enforcement at all levels need to be able to quickly and easily identify fake IDs and other documents. NECS offers a tamper-proof Identity Card produced by the IXLA laser-engraving technology to combat fraudulent documents.  Once laser-engraved, the information and visual pictures are unable to be scratched off nor removed with chemicals or other means.  Some of the security measures that can be incorporated onto a Polycarbonate Card for maximum ID protection include laser-engraved facial and ghost images, signatures, fingerprints, barcodes, micro text, and guilloches.

Businesses and Government Agencies are able to implement a robust verification process with the proper equipment to quickly and efficiently scan IDs to identify a legitimate personal document from a counterfeit one.  The NECS-IXLA team is able to support a cost-effective, seamless and transparent solution which integrates the IXLA systems into existing best practices.