David P. Willis

@dpwillis732

For about $150, you could buy a fake New Jersey' driver's license online.

"No Refunds. No snitching."

On Wednesday, federal investigators from the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service broke up an operation that sold driver's licenses from New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

Some of the bogus IDs, sold through websites fakeidstore.co and fakedlstore.com, were used as part of "cash out" schemes in which stolen credit card information, obtained through hacking or ATM skimmers, is encoded on to counterfeit credit cards and used to steal cash from victim's accounts.

Bulk pricing for 10 or more cards was available. And people could pay by bitcoin, a digital currency, or prepaid payment card.

Ricardo Rosario, 32, and Abraham Corcino, 33, both of Jersey City, and Alexis Scott Carthens, 37, of Newark are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and related activities in connection with authentication features, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark.

Authorities said Rosario created and ran the website while Corcino and Carthens helped him by creating and mailing the fake driver's licenses.

The three men allegedly sold 1,514 fake driver's licenses for $232,660 between Dec. 30, 2013 and June 23, 2014.

If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison.

David P. Willis: 732-643-4039; dwillis@app.com; facebook.com/dpwillis732