This ID thief should have used a fake name.
Muhammad Shafiq — on the run after being charged in a massive international identity-fraud bust — was nailed by the feds when he tried to board a Dubai-bound flight at Kennedy Airport with his real ID.
“How brazen,” one official told The Post. “He used his own name and went to his local airport.”
The 38-year-old Bellerose, LI, man had five fake IDs on him when he was arrested Thursday night, along with $6,000 in cash and eight bags, authorities said.
He was planning to fly on to Pakistan from Dubai, but his plans were foiled when he triggered alerts on the no-fly lookout system by booking the one-way tickets under his own name.
“They got him just steps from the gate,” the source said.
Shafiq was charged Tuesday when feds toppled a $200 million fraud ring in which 7,000 bogus identities and 80 sham companies were created. Shafiq and 17 others allegedly used the IDs to run up enormous charges on bogus credit cards, only to dump the plastic later. He was ordered held without bail.