WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2000 -- An Atlanta man who ran four Web sites promising fake identification documents has pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud charges and faces up to two years in prison. Three others have pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Anthony Wright's Web sites offered fake driver's licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards and even university diplomas for fees ranging from $40 to more than $200. Fortunately for the 415 people who took the bait, Wright never delivered any of the documents. Had he done so, they would now be targets of prosecution.

Prosecutors said that Wright,31, would have faced additional and potentially more serious charges had he actually delivered the phony documents. He entered his plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington.

Wright and three Washington-area men who helped him with the scam have agreed to make restituion of the $51,200 they collected. Wright also agreed to forfeit $38,000 from his bank account and three cars he purchased with funds from the scam, prosecutors said.

"Quality so real, it hurts!" Wright's sites claimed. Customers sent cash and money orders to Mail Boxes Etc. addresses Wright established in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., prosecutors said.

Wright's troubles began when a U.S. Senate committee investigating counterfeiting and identity theft happened onto his Web site and alerted U.S. postal inspectors.

The sites -- fake-id.org, id-2000.net, false-id.net and identification-cards.com -- were shut down in August, when postal inspectors arrested Wright.