Chinese driving test cheat rumbled after wig fails to hide his deceit

An audacious attempt by a Chinese man to cheat his way to a driving licence backfired this week, when eagle-eyed invigilators spotted his deception and pulled the brakes on the scam.

The incident happened on Tuesday as the unnamed individual was sitting a written test in Kunming, capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan province, local news portal Yunnan.cn reported on Friday.

While the report did not give the exact details of the misdemeanour, it said it involved a listening device, an earpiece and a black wig.

Soon after the test got under way, one of the invigilators became suspicious as the man seemed to be distracted, and was constantly looking around the room and fiddling with his hair, the report said.

When the official went to investigate, he spotted the concealed device and alerted his colleagues. The would-be cheat had run out of road.