Marketplace | Tony Arnold en Chinese counterfeiters churn out
fake U.S. IDs  It's no secret by now that Chinese counterfeiters
are the source of many pirated goods here -- from fake Gucci
bags to illegally copied DVDs.  But there's a new kind of knock-
off making its way from China these days. It seems many in the
underage crowd are shelling out their allowance for Chinese-made
fake IDs. From WBEZ in Chicago, Tony Arnold reports.  TONY
ARNOLD: So I'm here at my computer. I've got a search window up
and I'm typing "Buy fake IDs from..." and Google's auto-fill
finishes my thought with "from China." It turns out there are
any number of websites that offer fake IDs for many of the 50
states. They cost around a hundred bucks. And like other Chinese
knock-offs, they're really hard to tell from the original.  MIKE
RANKIN: It would take more of a forensic analysis to really
detect the fake ID.  Mike Rankin is with the Ohio Bureau of
Motor Vehicles. He says customs officials in his state and
others have seized thousand