This story in the Mail Online says that the number of L-test fraudsters has increased by 400% in the last 7 years. These people take the test for the candidate by pretending to be the candidate.
As an aside, anyone wishing to gain citizenship of the USA has to answer a series of questions, some of which are quite challenging.
Back to the topic – but with reference to that US citizenship thing – some of the people who use these L-test fraudsters really should be deported for being too stupid to live here.
Impersonators are charging £1,000 to sit theory tests and another £1,000 for practical tests.
The theory test costs £31, so for £1,000 you could sit it over 30 times, and it’s not like it’s difficult or anything. Another £10 for a book or DVD and a little study – and I mean very little – and you could pass it legitimately. Paying £1,000 for an “illegal copy” is inestimably stupid – it really is. You may as well drive illegally, because it amounts to the same thing.
How anyone could be so stupid – or so unsure of themselves – as to pay £1,000 for something which only costs £31 (plus a tiny bit of brain effort) is beyond me. In some communities it is just a cultural thing – no matter how easy it is to be legitimate in something, it is vital that that something is obtained fraudulently, often using as many other people in the community as possible!