{"id":7858,"date":"2026-10-06T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/authors-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:53:29","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Dent, author"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"crumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"\/nz\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a Author<\/nav>\n<p><span class=\"kicker\">Author<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Mark Dent, author<\/h1>\n<div class=\"answer\"><strong>Short answer:<\/strong> Mark Dent is the author of the Truthdocuments New Zealand guides to licence and document scams. Each guide is written from official sources, shows the date it was last reviewed, and links to the agency that issues the document. The method and corrections log are public.<\/div>\n<h2>What Mark writes<\/h2>\n<p>Mark Dent writes the guides on fake driver licences, overseas licence conversion fraud, look-alike passport and certificate sites, and the official way to get or check each one. The guides sit in two groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/nz\/driver-licence-scams\/\">Driver licences and licence fraud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/nz\/document-scams\/\">Birth certificates, passports and look-alike sites<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How the guides are made<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fees, rules and penalties are taken from the official page or the statute text, and fees show the date they were checked.<\/li>\n<li>Facts we cannot confirm from an official source are left out or marked as reported.<\/li>\n<li>Sellers are never named or linked to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full method is in <a href=\"\/nz\/how-we-research-nz\/\">how we research<\/a>. Errors are logged on <a href=\"\/nz\/corrections-nz\/\">the corrections page<\/a>, and you can report one through <a href=\"\/nz\/contact\/\">the contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related\">\n<h2>Keep reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/nz\/how-we-research-nz\/\">How we research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/nz\/corrections-nz\/\">Corrections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/nz\/editorial-policy\/\">Editorial policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Author Author Mark Dent, author Short answer: Mark Dent is the author of the Truthdocuments New Zealand guides to licence and document scams. Each guide is written from official sources, shows the date it was last reviewed, and links to the agency that issues the document. The method and corrections log are public. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"truthdocuments-guide","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthdocuments.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}