People who want free lunch from Subway?

Right. If you're going to do it, might as well counterfeit $1,000,000 bills to make it worthwhile.

FTFA:
"A counterfeit $5 bill was discovered in a money bag with other currency when the Office of the Bursar received a routine deposit from another department on campus, Oklahoma State University Police Capt. David Altman said Monday."

Ok, so according to everyone involved, Oklahoma State University is in possession of a fake five dollar bill.

Also FTFA:
"Possessing counterfeit United States currency is a violation of federal law punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison, a fine or both"

I know how you fine a school, but how exactly do you imprison a school? Or do they just arrest the president and board members???

White Fivers?

/obscurity

Years ago, I made an offhand comment to a checkout clerk about making money; I have no memory of the context. He laughed and said "speaking of making money" and handed me a fake $5. It was badly printed, smeared, and on plain paper, clearly from an inkjet. Someone had tried to pass it at the grocery store.

People are idiots, apparently.

FTFA: he counterfeit bill in that case was from a currency exchange in Fresnillo, in the Mexican state of Zacatecas,

Messicans subby, Messicans

That's why we need $5 coins.

/Canadian

JohnAnnArbor: Years ago, I made an offhand comment to a checkout clerk about making money; I have no memory of the context. He laughed and said "speaking of making money" and handed me a fake $5. It was badly printed, smeared, and on plain paper, clearly from an inkjet. Someone had tried to pass it at the grocery store.

People are idiots, apparently.

News Flash!

Decillion: That's why we need $5 coins.

/Canadian

Strangely enough, I agree with you.

The FED?

Sin_City_Superhero: I always thought that if you wanted to get away with counterfeiting, you would want to fake ones, fives, and tens. Nobody ever checks them. And pass them off when you are out of town, not within a three-block radius of your apartment.

Tens get checked. I picked up a fake $10 bill in rural OK one time (at a gas station outside a Cherokee Nation casino). I tried to spend it at a fruit stand in San Antonio, TX. The guy marked it with a pen and it was fake. I turned it over to a bank with a report on where and how I got it.

Leeds: FTFA:
"A counterfeit $5 bill was discovered in a money bag with other currency when the Office of the Bursar received a routine deposit from another department on campus, Oklahoma State University Police Capt. David Altman said Monday."

Ok, so according to everyone involved, Oklahoma State University is in possession of a fake five dollar bill.

Also FTFA: "The bill this time was of poor quality," Altman said. "The bill and a copy of our report will be sent to the United States Secret Service to assist in their investigation. We will be investigating no further."

Who counterfeits a $5.00 bill, honestly?

Who counterfeits a $5.00 bill honestly?

A number of people, actually. 5s are the most common counterfeits I get through my work, tens and 20s are rare and far between.

And to answer the question 'who counterfeits 1 dollar bills' are those desperate for smokes. Those are the first counterfeits I received several years ago when I worked at a gas station (back than a pack of marlboro reds were $4.11).

People ask me why I check my fives, and thats when I tell them the first I received are ones - and it had to came out of my check. Now, do you think I want to pay out of my pocket for a bad 5? Let alone a 20?

I work for a museum, and people try to pass us fake $5 and $10 bills on a regular basis in the gift shop. Unfortunately, since the store is staffed by volunteers who refuse to check the bills like I tell them to, I only discover the fakes upon getting ready to take a deposit to the bank. I hand over the fake bills to the bank, but we always end up getting nowhere on recovering real money or finding the counterfeiter. We lose about $200 a year in merchandise and admission fees to this BS.

I know of a guy that in the late 80's was doing one dollar bills. He would only spend them in night clubs; boy was he ever a big tipper.

He got busted when he broke from his rules and used 5 of them to buy gas, the clerk recognized them as fake and called the secret service. They went to his house and found his equipment in the garage with about $200,000 of printed money. From what I hear they were impressed with the quality and said if had been doing $100 bills he would likley have been able to pass them. His mistake was having the same serial number on all of them. He should have done it to have at least 20 or more so a first glance of them would not raise suspicion. Apparently he was making the paper too so he could get the feel right by adding linnen. That is the part that is so surprising to me, that he could make the paper.

The government prints fake money all the time.

In Peru you can buy "novelty" $100s and $20s at every corner store. they have strips and everything.

Amberwind: I work for a museum, and people try to pass us fake $5 and $10 bills on a regular basis in the gift shop. Unfortunately, since the store is staffed by volunteers who refuse to check the bills like I tell them to, I only discover the fakes upon getting ready to take a deposit to the bank. I hand over the fake bills to the bank, but we always end up getting nowhere on recovering real money or finding the counterfeiter. We lose about $200 a year in merchandise and admission fees to this BS.

What kind of dickhead uses counterfeits at a museum giftshop?

This is why i only take payments in Trident Layers

I'm a Canuck so I'm used to the 1 and 2 dollar coin. Traveling in Switzerland a couple of times a year I've also gotten used to their 5 Swiss Franc coin as well. They work out well but you do tend to jingle when you walk. Of course, I like that and sing "I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle" to myself.

Rusty Shackleford

Live long.
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And Profit.

We did this with the color printers in the computer lab in high school all the time. It was way easier to pass fake $5s in the cafeteria/fast food drive-thrus than it was to pass $20s.

/Neither proud nor ashamed, just glad I outgrew my idiot youth.

I've seen store clerks checking $10 bills with those markers. $5s and $1s are the way to go.

Two and a half fnorgbys?

Your Mom!

Who counterfeits $5 bills? Silly question. Do you know how useful these would be at a strip club?

Orgasmatron138: I've seen store clerks checking $10 bills with those markers. $5s and $1s are the way to go.

I read a thing on that and counterfeiters coat the paper, which then passes the marker test

Amberwind: We lose about $200 a year in merchandise and admission fees to this BS.

LOL $200 a year. It's not worth holding a meeting over losing $200/yr.

FTFA:Manufacturing or possessing counterfeit United States currency is a violation of federal law punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison, a fine or both, according to the United States Secret Service's website.

Wow I didn't know that. Thanks for that info Romero.

Now that's been posted for all to see. There will be no more counterfeiting.

Cheesus: Amberwind: I work for a museum, and people try to pass us fake $5 and $10 bills on a regular basis in the gift shop. Unfortunately, since the store is staffed by volunteers who refuse to check the bills like I tell them to, I only discover the fakes upon getting ready to take a deposit to the bank. I hand over the fake bills to the bank, but we always end up getting nowhere on recovering real money or finding the counterfeiter. We lose about $200 a year in merchandise and admission fees to this BS.

What kind of dickhead uses counterfeits at a museum giftshop?

If it's only $200 a year then I would think that it's people who got counterfeit bills as change without realizing it.

whats this marker thing????

Amberwind: I work for a museum, and people try to pass us fake $5 and $10 bills on a regular basis in the gift shop. Unfortunately, since the store is staffed by volunteers who refuse to check the bills like I tell them to, I only discover the fakes upon getting ready to take a deposit to the bank. I hand over the fake bills to the bank, but we always end up getting nowhere on recovering real money or finding the counterfeiter. We lose about $200 a year in merchandise and admission fees to this BS.



Which museum?