The highly talented rogue mechanics behind the fake Ferrari ring shaped slick "Enzo red" exteriors from fiberglass and fake car parts.

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It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.

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And in February, consumer data company ChoicePoint (nyse: CPS - news - people ) revealed that it had been taken in by a ring of identity thieves who used fake business licenses to buy personal information concerning 145, 000 people.

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The techniques deployed by the crime ring ran the gamut, from child ID theft to setting up fake stores to process credit card payments.

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Two months after the raid the ring was back in operation, having shipped 13, 000 more fake watches to America, according to a judge's ruling in a contempt hearing in early April.

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