UK Forger Gets Busted For Fake Train Tickets
Back in middle school, one of our friends got a scanner for his computer—it was cool at the time, we promise. The logical thing was to immediately make fake hall passes, so we totally understand what Jonathan Moore was thinking when he did something similar. Instead of wandering the hallways, this IT expert made more than £12,000 in fake train tickets. His copies were pretty good since they allowed him to travel totally free for about two years.
He would have continued on his merry way except a ticket taker with a good eye finally ruined his free ride. One day in Brighton an inspector noticed a color variation in his ticket, and then another 11 fake tickets were discovered in the plastic wallet where he kept all his contraband. So instead of getting busted for just one ride, he pretty much got busted for every ride he ever took. It didn’t help that the local police found over 70 designs for forged tickets on his computer.
The Photoshop expert received a nine month suspended sentence, a 240-hour work order, and he had to pay back the more than £12,000 that he stole from the train service. The judge wasn’t too happy that he used his computer skills for evil and not for good. Unfortunately, the chap was kind of forced to resign from his job after the company threatened disciplinary action. At least he didn’t decide to sell any of the fake tickets; the court found no evidence to support this, otherwise he’d be in the slammer for a long time.
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[The Times]
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