A few musings about the dollar

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A few musings about the dollar

Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:33 pm

So I was chatting to Mrs. V last night about the Illuminatii and stuff and I dug out a dollar bill to show her the eye in the pyramid and all that and I got to thinking...

When I was at school I had a step-by-step guide on how to forge US currency in Jolly Roger's cookbook. It's only printed in two colours - green and black - and even back then was considered relatively simple to do. These days, with scanners, computers and home printers, it must be an absolute piece of piss. Find the right kind of paper and you're away.

So why doesn't everyone do this? I bet it would take me about a weekend (if that) to produce a stack of $1 bills. It's not like UK currency where I'd need to worry about all the security measures, 'cause as far as I can tell there aren't any.

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Post by Scraplet » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:51 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote: Thoughts?
The FBI have just put a tap on your line and are watching this thread now? :p
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Post by Kaylee » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:22 pm

The serial numbers on dollar bills are their security measure AFAIK. The numbers are presumably easily recognised as fake by anyone in commerce (people in banks etc.) so any fake bill is ID'd, the person who brought it in is arrested and so it is traced back to the maker.
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:00 pm

the $ bill is the easiest bill to counterfit in the whole world, they are just about to change it to a modern design, made by us, as we are cool.

Not to long ago for £5 i used to buy 4 fake £20 notes. U hand those babys over in a nightclub for a pint and u have free money.

god im a crim...
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Post by Best First » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:07 pm

i think the reason is that it costs more to print them than it does to buy em at the currency exchange these days...
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:11 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Not to long ago for £5 i used to buy 4 fake £20 notes. U hand those babys over in a nightclub for a pint and u have free money.

god im a crim...
There was a lot of that at my school :) The tuck shop was full of dodgy money all the time...
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