Daily Mail Reporter Claims Fake Syrian Passport Fooled Expert
Daily Mail reporter Nick Fagge told Fox News that he was able to get a fake Syrian passport good enough to fool a supposed “forgery expert” for just $2,000.
Fagge’s article on the experience caught the attention of Monday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, where he appeared to discuss just how easy it apparently is to attain a Syrian passport — regardless of whether or not you’re actually a Syrian refugee. The reporter was able to obtain a passport, driving license and identity card for the price.
“When I bought the passport, I asked [the forger] who was buying them,” he said. “He told me, ‘people who wanted a better life, people who are pretending to by Syrians.’ But most worryingly, ‘members of ISIS,’ people who wanted to come to Europe to bring their evil war to us and kill people.”
.@DailyMail reporter Nick Fagge bought a fake Syrian passport for $2000 – even a forge expert said it looked genuine https://t.co/elHtWIAsOS
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 16, 2015
Fagge later got in touch with a forgery expert in the German police. Both the driving license and the identity card were easily dismissed, but the passport was another matter.
“He spent quite a long time analyzing it. He said it was genuine. He said, ‘This is a real passport.'”
Concerns about possible ties between Syrian refugees and ISIS have been heightened following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris after a Syrian passport was found on one of the attackers. In the United States, several state governors have denounced the White House’s current plan to accept refugees.
Check out the clip above, via Fox News.
[h/t The Blaze, Daily Mail]
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