More detailed information about Chinese woman fake fingerprinting fooled Japan passport control in December 2009. This news has increasingly been famous in the world as this technology may be used to others.
Biometrics checks using finger prints can be fooled, one only has to have the money for skin surgery to some US$15,000 to fool immigration is a worth while price to pay. A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.
Lin Rong, 27had previously been deported from Japan for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was arrested on separate charges. Tokyo police said she had paid $15,000 (£9,000) to have the surgery in China. It is Japan's first case of alleged biometric fraud, but police believe the practice may be widespread.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/fake-fingerprint-chinese-woman-fools-japan-controls
$15,000 for fake fingerprinting costs and return to be deported. Maybe it is not expensive to the angels.