In the wake of multiple investigations by the West Virginia State Police and Hardy County Sheriff’s Department over fraudulent foreign schemes to use false drivers’ licenses to sell land comes one from Grant County in which a resident’s classic car was stolen.
Chief Deputy J. T. Miller reported that what he has concluded were foreign criminal operatives had created fraudulent drivers’ licenses using publicly available identifying information and invented details for categories that were not available. Using identification that appeared legitimate, con artists used these to fool real estate agents into selling vacant property out from under unsuspecting owners.
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