Counterfeiting scams 👀

These seem like not nice people.

#prank #stunt #educational

[ModernRogue]

These seem like not nice people.



#prank #stunt #educational

[Skronk]

Next episode: how to convince the IRS it was a joke

[CynTheGM]

Brother man is just describing the fucking plot of Reacher

[michaeltempsch]

Many (most?) Countries have increasing sizes for increasing denominations, both to prevent this approach to counterfeiting, and to help the blind.

[dangerszewski]

the funny part is the amazing specificity of the parts of this scam. "Tebi-manetic solution" "vectrol paste" and "anti-breeze" are words that show up again and again. I've been on chemistry forums where people show up looking for these mythical substances and we had to explain there is no such magic substance

[Warriorten]

One of many strats in Saul and Marco's arsenal

[VampyricDoge]

I work in retail, we have people trying to pass washed bills so often that we have basically stopped accepting old $100s because of it. I am able to determine if they're real based on raised printing, but no one else in the building is and washed bills pass the pen test.

[donstalos]

Anybody who falls for the black bill thing deserves to get ripped off.

[MrChrispy]

A woman passed off a $100 bill, using a bleached $5 note. I was a new cashier, and Saturday's lines were long. I used my marker to no effect, and the bill was blurry. I should've called a supervisor, or told her to come up with another payment method, but I got pressured.
The watermark was Lincoln. Live and learn.

[Teh_Random_Canadian]

Nobody with 1 million dollars would be dumb enough to fall for that 😂

[plt]

I imagine that works better with money that has nearly no safety features like in the USA. Good luck trying that in the EU where money is colour coded, has different sizes and has about 20 other features that distinguish the bills

[airlag]

reusing paper from low value notes for false high value notes only works on US money. in Europe, notes of different value have different sizes and different watermarks.

[nd-place]

Oh yes, the classic scam when you give someone you’ve never met a million dollars for drug money without doing any random sample testing first.

[erdmannelchen]

Imagine bills being a different size so that wouldn't work

[nedcurfman]

Bleaching bills for counterfeiting was actually the plot of the first Jack Reacher book. Nice.

[ethelmini]

..and this is why countries that aren't stupid have bills that that are bigger the more they are worth.

[DowtonThomas]

Gee, how clever!! Of course, Jack Reacher figured that out years ago. : )

[grimtygranule]

The fact he perfectly explained the scam,
He's the originator.

[ZeranZeran]

2 men repeat things they saw in a movie once

[nunyabiznez]

I read of a gentleman who printed one dollar bills. He traveled around the country with suitcases filled with them. He only spent them one place, strip clubs. He paid all the girls in fake ones and nobody ever looks carefully at one dollar bills. Strip clubs are usually pretty dark and the girls usually are grabbing the bills in handfuls and simply don't pay attention. They guy did eventually get caught. He normally never visited the same club twice in one year but one of the girls he scammed this way just happen to move to another part of the country and he just happened to walk into her new place of employment and she remembered him. She had the secret service on speed dial so when she spotted him in the club she called up the Secret service then proceeded to give him a multi hour lap dance while he kept giving her fake ones and finally the secret service arrived and arrested him and found suitcases of them in the trunk of his car. Turns out they weren't even particularly good fakes.