How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

Video written by Ben Doyle

[LostSonOfPluto]

My favorite part about this channel is seeing what kinda crazy stock footage can make the cut. Like someone shot that footage of a monkey next to a pile of cash and thought “yeah… someone will pay for that” and then someone did

[danyay]

Fun fact: in Hong Kong, they still allow certain banks, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, to print their own banknotes.

[matthew]

Bro, that plan by Germany was actually kinda solid. I had never thought that the most effective kind of bombs would be stacks of 100$ bills

[StarlightSoda]

The thing about the SuperDollar is, it's still viable, because not everyone has the latest bills, and there's no mandate to exchange them, besides banks.
So they can still use all the mass produced ones stealthily.

[spikesmth]

I used to be a bank teller (probably 2012-2013) and we did a lot of cash transactions at my branch. One day I got a deposit of a few thousand dollars from a local bar including lots of hundreds. I ran the stack through the counting machine (which had a counterfeit detection feature) and everything checked out. After I processed the transaction and was handling the money to place into my till... one of the $100s "didn't feel right." The new blue Benjamins had just been released but this bill was of the old type. I ran it through the machine again, clear. I marked it with the detector pen, clear. Showed it to my manager... who said, well, if it passed the checks then it should be ok. Thing was, it had this kind of waxy coating on it which I suspected was fooling the ink test. So I put a small tear in a corner, tested with the pen again, and sure enough it was a fake. I'm convinced it was one of these NK masterpieces. So we sent it to the secret service and that was the last I heard about it.

[DJTechYT]

2:17 “On denominations higher than the $1 bill”
2:30 “All bills five or above…”
$2 bill: Am I a joke to you?

[cedricye]

People, before you start commenting about no sponsor, *there is literally a hello fresh link in the description*

[fissionabledolphin]

No… this can’t be…. An HAI video without a sponsor at the beginning? This is impossible, this must be a facade! They must’ve been hacked! Sam are you okay??? Have you been captured?

[cfltheman]

The counterfeiting problem was so bad in the 1860's that the Secret Service was created to deal with it.

[kulrigalestout]

So thanks to the vending machine lobby, the $1 is the easiest bill to counterfeit, and thanks to the vending machine in the lobby, the $1 bill is the most useful bill to counterfeit. Neat!

[FinalSentinel]

Why make a fake dollar bill when you can just pump out another half as interesting episode while holding Wendover Sam hostage.

[jdatlas]

*starts furiously taking notes* no, no, this is just a science project

[Marylandbrony]

I’m going to use my superdollars to not buy hello fresh but instead pay to win Raid Shadow Legends.

[plantrulz]

I am working at a company that's highly regulated by the federal government since we create a coating that is nearly identical to the coating used on the bottom right of bills 5 buck and above.

[AwokenEntertainment]

this is exactly why the restaurant I work with doesn't accept any of the old $100 bills at all..

[vladtepes]

The super bills were indeed quite good but, for those in the know, were in fact distinguishable. The paper even though very good was also distinguishable. The paper used for US currency is basically 18th century writing paper with a few enhancements (e.g. the red and blue fibers).

[Fsast]

Last time I was this early the ruthless dictator was being removed by another ruthless dictator which removed the previous ruthless dictator

[Discosaturn]

(Worker accidentally puts a typo on a counterfeit dollar bill)

"You misspelled Washington as WAHSINGTON! You go to labor camp!"

[Aztesticals]

I haven't watched the full video but I'd like to point out something. In my area there was just a massive bust over fake 10 dollar bills. They had proper ink color and correct kind of fiber feel that's all. None of the special security features. It's estimated that over 100k of fake 10 bills were being circulated. All because Noone not even I who accepted several of them at my gas station takes the time to check a 10 more than make sure it feels right and looks right. If you counterfeit a 10. Noone besides a bank will take the time to tell the difference. I check 50s and 100s. And I check 20s if they are an old looking denomination or are too crisp. But who thinks to check 10 dollar bills under the light

[bustercrabbe]

This is called a 'super bill', and here in Boston over by Brewer Fountain in Boston Common an Aisan guy was passing them out at $100 each to just anybody. He was reported to the police by homeless people. This happened about 20 years ago.