The US needs to take a look at what Canada is doing.

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""This week we've almost hit $85,0000 in counterfeit currency, and we're not even at Black Friday yet," said Ron Remer with the U.S. Secret Service counterfeit division in Miami."

My god. With Black Friday on the horizon, it could get as high as $85,00000.

jehovahs witness protection: $85,0000 in counterfeit currency, because we count real money differently.

Came here to say this.

/leaving now

Secret Service is on the case:



/hot

//getting too old for this sheet

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Knew some guys in high school that printed off a bunch of $10 bills on their home printer, on regular farking paper. Most tellers take so much cash in a day that they simply don't notice until well after the passers leave. Well, all except that one, and she called the cops and gave them the security tapes. And then the detectives sat down all the high school-aged employees and asked them if they knew the people on the tapes. These guys passed like $400 worth of counterfeit 10s before the detectives raided their houses with the farking Secret Service. Talk about crapping your teenage drawers. I think they all got community service and a tiny fine. I know the Secret Service eventually gave them back the printer.

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Entheogenic: Most tellers take so much cash in a day that they simply don't notice

crappy tellers then. after a while working a cash drawer you should be able to tell by feel.

/obviously not against the bleached and re-printed bills in TFA

Don't ask him, he'll think it's real...

jehovahs witness protection: $85,0000 in counterfeit currency, because we count real money differently.

CAADbury: Came here to say this.

It's almost like you guys never learned how to count to eighty-five spillion.

Where Fnorgby? WHER

It's good that the TB employees can tell fake money. Now, if only they could do something about the fake food.

jk-Fries supreme is gods gift to man.

jehovahs witness protection: $85,0000 in counterfeit currency, because we count real money differently.

So what do we call that? 85 thousandy?

"These bleached bills will pass the pen test most retailers use at cash registers,"

Really? And here I thought that the purpose of the pen test was to detect bleached bills.

Checking for counterfeits:

How to freak out a cashier (non-$2 bill method):

- "Padding supplies (the sort found here (new window))
- Stack of new $20 bills

Turn stack of new $20 bills into a pad of $20 bills. When checking out at the store, peel the required number of 20s from the pad. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.

Most places I go to here in SWFL won't even take $100s (and sometimes $50s). Only the grocery stores and Big Box stores. And even then, $50s and $100s get the 3rd degree.

Sybarite: jagec: "These bleached bills will pass the pen test most retailers use at cash registers,"

Really? And here I thought that the purpose of the pen test was to detect bleached bills.


No, the pen just contains an iodine solution that turns black when it reacts with wood-based paper but doesn't when it's used on fiber-based paper. It's really just to detect color copier jobs.

Close: it tests for starch. Want to fark with the idiots who want to pen-test every bill you hand 'em? Spray them all with starch and let it dry. False positive every time, I guarantee it.

Even the workers at Taco Bell know the $2 headline is missing some words.

The $2? Really?

I once had a biatch BofA employee in Boca Raton, confiscate a $100 bill i was trying to deposit, saying it was fake. She even showed it to her supervisor who gave me a disgusted look and corroborated it was fake. The bill was then sent to some city worker who's sole job it is to verify these bills.

As i suspected, it was a perfectly legitimate bill and finally deposited.

My great regret in life was not going back to that bank of cussing those biatches out.

Aren't we supposed to be blaming some Commie threat for this? "It's the Chinese undermining our economy."

/Yeah, that'll play in the sticks.

sinanju: How to freak out a cashier (non-$2 bill method):

- "Padding supplies (the sort found here (new window))
- Stack of new $20 bills

Turn stack of new $20 bills into a pad of $20 bills. When checking out at the store, peel the required number of 20s from the pad. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.

that's true evil genius right there.

ThisNameSux: The US needs to take a look at what Canada is doing.

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Canada has been way ahead of us with this for years. Amazing that our government can't keep up with this. Your tax dollars (not) hard at work.

Man On Fire: crappy tellers then. after a while working a cash drawer you should be able to tell by feel.

Most tellers young, underpaid, corporate-underling cash-handlers take so much cash in a day that they simply don't notice care to notice until well after the passers leave their boss gives them shiat at the end of their shift.

/FTFM

jagec: "These bleached bills will pass the pen test most retailers use at cash registers,"

Really? And here I thought that the purpose of the pen test was to detect bleached bills.

Bills have a stripe of specific color and location that fluoresces under ultraviolet light to identify denomination. The bleached bills will have the stripe of their original value, or no stripe.

I bought a few UV LEDs, some resistors, a battery holder, a project box and a momentary switch. Made a counterfeit detector more effective and cheaper than the markers.

Next time I will go with florescent or cold cathode rather than LED though.

Sybarite: Sounds like some people have stocked their basements full of jelly jars and heavy equipment.

Bravo.

sinanju: How to freak out a cashier (non-$2 bill method):

- "Padding supplies (the sort found here (new window))
- Stack of new $20 bills

Turn stack of new $20 bills into a pad of $20 bills. When checking out at the store, peel the required number of 20s from the pad. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.

Doesn't/didn't 3M sell a glue stick of the adhesive they use on Post-its?

Your method would also be amusing at a strip club with a stack of singles.

jdjoker: Doesn't/didn't 3M sell a glue stick of the adhesive they use on Post-its?

Yes. It's AWESOME for making collages (regular scissors and glue paper collages) because you can reposition stuff until you get it just where you want it.

As for $50 bills... The first time I saw the new $50 with the bigger picture on it, I honestly did think it was play money (we used to have lots of play money as kids, a relative would send it from Mardi Gras). My brother took one out of his bag to show me, I thought he was kidding, and tossed it in the trash can by the desk. As it was falling in there, I thought "hey, I thought they couldn't print 'This note is legal tender for all debts public and private' on play money" and then 0.05 seconds later realized oh wait duh, that means it ISN'T play money!!

Got it out without much trouble though. Thank goodness.

The bar I work at had a printed 20 on a bleached $1 bill. If you work with cash be careful.

Red flags: if a customer uses a $20 $50 or $100 dollar bill to pay for something small. Or asking for change on any of these bills.

/the moar you No!

Poison: Canada

Australia has been using Polymer notes since 1988.....

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Nonesuch: Poison: Canada

Australia has been using Polymer notes since 1988.....

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And holograms if I'm not mistaken. Some Aussie notes have them. They still get copied.

Nonesuch: Australia has been using Polymer notes since 1988.....

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These banknotes are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) which greatly enhances durability of the banknotes.

Mmmmm, BOPP.

Ours all looks like third world money these days anyway (and will soon be worth just about as much).

"Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government": I ain't got much faith in them. And their credit is gettin shaky.