On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:00:13 -0700, rangerssuck wrote:
On Sep 26, 10:31*am, Rich Grise wrote:
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:37:30 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote:
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GIVE UP YOUR LIFE OF CRIME, BOY!

I actually did that with a $20; I showed it to my brother, tore it up,
and flushed it. He said he'd thought of *printing some up to use in the
bill changer at the casino - I said that I'd rather deal with the Feds
than casino security. ;-)

And anyway, I knew it wouldn't work in a changer anyway, since I didn't
have any magnetic ink. ;-)

a) not a chance that your counterfeit twenty would get past a casino bill
changer. I used to design these things. They're way smarter than that.
You'd have better luck getting one past a human cashier.

I was just thinking, when you sit down at the blackjack table, you hand
the dealer a 20; he handles it a little bit, creases it lengthwise and
makes a little pup tent on the table, announces "Twenty Down!" and sticks
it in the slot on the table.

But what if they have a UV spotlight? I bought an RV toilet once, and when
I handed the checker a Franklin, she held it under a black light. It
didn't fluoresce; ordinary paper does. So I guess I'll have to get some
100% rag vellum. :-)

b) After dealing with casino security, you'd likely end up dealing with
the Feds as well. Sort of a twofer.

c) many (all?) color copiers will refuse to copy US currency. I'm not sure
if this is by law or by "cooperation" of the manufacturers

Does it make a difference? ;-)


, but it's a
fact. My Brother MFC9840CDW will copy the currency, but it overprints the
entire page in red. Interestingly, though, I can scan the bill to a pdf
file, and then print it with no trouble. Of course, said copy then goes
straight into the shredder.

d) It always amuses me when the cashier at the supermarket holds my $20 up
to the light, as if she knows what she's looking for. "Real"
counterfeiters were producing bills with the plastic strips and microprint
a few weeks after they were released.

Yeah, but that should still thwart the home CFer, because how do you
duplicate that?

e) A more realistic copy machine counterfeitting scenario would be
making bogus store coupons - $5 McDonald's coupons from the office
copier could get you free lunches forever, or until the "food" kills
you.

Hmmmmmm.....

In Minnesota, they used to have paper coupons for food stamps. I saw
an exposé of people working at the food stamp factory pocketing huge
piles of them. When I had a job beertending at a local honky-tonk, the
welfare recipients would come in and offer to sell food stamps for .50
on the dollar.


f) the T-men are very, very smart, and they have some very, very
sophisticated tools at their disposal.

Well, one generally doesn't associate the words "government" and "smart"
in the same paragraph, but then again, money isn't controlled by da
gubmint, but by the banks, who have essentially the power of the Mafia.

Thanks,
Rich