I'm still working James Brown, but in the meantime, here is the Picard Enterprises web site.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Okay, here is a new thing I'm trying. Photoshopping the existing passports is pretty difficult, what with the background pattern and all. So I created my own passport template (the whole thing created from scratch in Paint Shop Pro). Don't look 100% right, but just wait.

Then I filled it in, printed it out and scanned it in to give it more of a "scanned in document" feel.

I'm pretty pleased, and now I can make a "passport" to use on any scammer.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Isn't this illegal?
:P

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

Probably, but it's funny. The Picard Enterprises web-site is hilarious.

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Hey fuzzyman, can you make a passport for my lovely friend from Yeman? His name is Abu Adil Hashid and he wants to visit some famous landmarks while he's here in New York with me. He seems like a great guy... very polite and soft-spoken... and he's very political. Anyway... Can ya help a (Arab) brother out and whip up a passport listing his name as 'John Smith'?

Thanks in advance,

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Destroying my reputation one post at a time.

I tend to doubt it's illegal, since I'm it's only an electronic image that would never pass for real if printed. I purposely didn't try to mimic the real passport background (the hexagon things). But there have been a few different passport formats over the years, and I doubt the scammers are bright enough to know the difference.

Plus if you print this and try to fold it over, the top part is longer than the bottom... oops!

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Fuzzy, maybe you should put a big "VOID" across the passport or something, and just say to the guys you did it for security reasons. This might help avoid any legal problems you may encounter.

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Poop.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

I wouldnt worry too much, counterfeiting and creating an actual passport is one thing but Id hardly say this counts. Rock on fuzzy! This is truely aces.

I actually just received the original email today. They're not giving up easily, are they?

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