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Crooks sold more than 5,000 fake documents to illegal immigrants




Associated Press - May 31, 2007 8:54 PM ET

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Federal officials say a Sacramento-based fraud ring sold more than 5,000 fake Social Security cards, driver's licenses, green cards and birth certificates mainly to illegal immigrants over a two year period.

The last of 5 people involved in the ring was sentenced to federal prison today.

Investigators say the documents were made in a south Sacramento hotel room and sometimes sold for thousands of dollars.

Many of the birth certificates and Social Security numbers were valid. Officials say that makes them more dangerous in the wrong hands.