Drivers who have not passed the test are more likely to crash
Many thousands of people could be paying fraudsters to sit their driving test for them, the BBC has learned.
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) says impostors have been charging up to £500 and can have taken more than 200 tests each.
The scam works when the fraudsters pass off as the person in the photo on the provisional licence that candidates must bring to their test.
The DSA described the problem, the scale of which has only recently become clear, as serious.
Difficult to spot
The head of the DSA’s fraud team, Andy Rice, said: “It is quite common for them to do over 100, sometimes over 200 tests, before we’re in a position to arrest them. It potentially could be into the tens of thousands.”
Source BBC…
