They said that police teams worked on the leads and technical surveillance and apprehended the gang members. Officials said the gang members used to threaten the victims that they were being taken to the police station and then forced them to give money.

They stopped the trader, used fake police ID cards to threaten them with cases (about the source of money) and forced them to part with the money,' a police official said. 'The gang used to get insider information that a trader is carrying money. Police officials said the gang members used to get insider information about money with traders. In another incident in Lucknow, over Rs 8 lakh were taken from a trader, Akash Kulhari, Joint Commissioner of Police Crime, Lucknow, told the media here. Police said the gang members kept track of some traders and sought to know details about their cash movement.Īn incident was reported from the Hindola area of Lucknow on June 20 in which the gang members extracted Rs 15 lakh belonging to a trader. Note that the field where the PESEL number is embedded contains laser engraved micro lines that you should be able to feel under your finger.Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), June 22 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a gang of criminals who used to loot people by showing fake police IDs and have arrested seven people. Sometimes a quick comparison between the date of birth on the front of the card and the PESEL format where the date of birth should be encoded will be enough to spot a forged ID.Īlternatively, you can always Google the PESEL number on the ID you suspect to be fake, or search data breach databases to see can you find a genuine PESEL number somewhere, linked to a completely different identity. X denotes a person’s sex (even number for females, odd number for males).ZZZX is the personal identification number,.YYMMDD is the date of birth (with century encoded in month field),.Legitimate PESEL numbers have this format: The PESEL number on the card’s reverse side should follow a specific format, and this is where a fake ID card will often get this wrong. This is a unique number given to every citizen of Poland at the moment they are registered with official authorities after their birth.

PESEL is a Polish language abbreviation of the Universal Electronic System for Registration of the Population.

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