Counterfeit Currency
 

Does anyone here have any experience with counterfeit currency?

Read an article about a man who printed $250 MILLION in counterfeit U.S. currency.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/h...t-away-with-it

Dude got caught, but still has $50 MILLION of it stashed away.

I once turned out to have a fake 20 when the cashier checked it. He didnt give a **** and took it anyways. Support your local liquor stores. **** Bevmo.

Friend in high school had a very good printer and was able to print off about $5,000 in 20's. He got caught because he had a big mouth and one of the kids he told ratted on him for revenge over some BS. He got like 10 years probation.

That does seem a lot. Then again, back around the Civil War couldn't you be actually executed for counterfeiting money?

I don't think Exo remembers.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to find scans of bills online [if one were so inclined]. I would think that it would be the paper that would be the hardest to get right.

Australian notes would be more of a challenge on polymer with holographic inlays.

In the U.S., older bills lack security features. I'm guessing the same is true with other nations' currencies.

We don't have older bills.

Those euros from the early sixties were pretty shoddy.

They didn't lack security features, they just had less of them. The old bills still uses blue and red threads scattered throughout the cotton/linen blend for paper, and utilizes Intaglio printing to give it its unique look. Nowadays there are more security features on currency, still with all those features a person only needs a few seconds to pass off a counterfeit.

If you are worry about being fooled into receiving a counterfeit note, the best thing to do is take your time receiving money. Know what a real and a counterfeit note looks like. If it is smooth with a magazine or computer jet printer look to it, it's counterfeit. Counterfeit detector markers don't always work. A counterfeiter can strip a one dollar bill of its ink, then print over it to make it look like a hundred dollar bill. Since the bill was at one time real currency it will pass the counterfeit marker test.