Here is a report of a woman who apparently was able to enter Japan illegally using a fake passport and fake fingerprints taped to her fingers. She was able to get through the automatic biometric scanning system that has been installed at many Japanese airports.
S. Korean woman ‘tricked’ airport fingerprint scan
A South Korean woman entered Japan on a fake passport in April 2008 by slipping through a state-of-the-art biometric immigration control system using special tape on her fingers to alter her fingerprints, it was learned Wednesday.
But I don’t understand, how airport workers didn’t notice, that she had these special tapes on her fingers, and where she take them, I can understand fake passport, but fake fingerprints, it is something new, in the world of crime.
I presume that the fingerprint reader was unattended, so nobody was there to see if false fingerprints were taped to the fingers. Certainly, most biometric border control systems I have seen are unattended, or poor attended.