Peru is the number one producer of counterfeit US dollars in the world. In 2015, just over 16 million forged bills seized in the US were of Peruvian origin. In the former scenario you print money at 2%. In the latter one, you print money at 18%. You can see how the rich know how to use fake money to make you poorer and them richer. The good news is you can also print fake money to buy real money and real assets like the rich do. All you need is the knowledge and to take the initiative. The criminal markets hidden in the dark web are not friendly places, for the most part. Unless you are familiar with the necessary procedures and have an understanding of dark web OPSEC you will most likely.

This is not a how-to article about counterfeiting. I do not sell or provide instructions about counterfeiting money. I do not sell or provide printing equipment for the purposes of counterfeiting money. Nor do I sell or provide counterfeit money.

The new additions to the hundred dollar bill should make it much more difficult to copy. Counterfeiters will need to come up with some new techniques to make this one work. Until then, I’m sticking to making money the old fashioned way.

I was struggling to come up with an original idea this week until one of my employees showed me the new hundred dollar bill. After cashing his meager paycheck he showed me one of the new bills he received in exchange. “Heh” he shrugged, “try forging this one.”

If you haven’t seen the new notes, they’re covered in holographic type art, a fancy strip on the outside of the bill, and a big colorful $100.00 imprint on the back. Outside of looking like play money, all the changes the mint made would make forgery very difficult. Many different technologies have been implemented to keep us safe.

Years ago it wasn’t uncommon to receive counterfeit bills. I’ve taken a couple over the years and most are easy enough to spot. In fact, most of the time counterfeits can be picked up just by feel. Other times they’re not as easy to tell by feel, but can be held to light for watermarks and imprinted identification bands.

A little known fact is that US currency is only printed on 100% cotton fiber paper from Dalton, MA. Because of this, the forgery detecting pens used by businesses change to black when marked on cellulose based media. The ink used in the pens reacts differently to cellulose than cotton.

So what happens if a counterfeiter were to get his hands on cotton paper? I checked one of the bigger art supply stores in the area and ‘rag’ paper can be purchased; but not with the signature colored threads that our money is printed. The only way to get the exact paper is to use the paper which our currency is printed.

Bleaching smaller bills and reprinting with artwork from larger bills is a very common forgery technique. One of the most common is bleaching five dollar bills and printing a one hundred in its place. This makes the bill pass the feel and pen test but not the black light test. Looking through the bill with a black light would show a blue band and not a red band (as is found in a real $100.00 bill).

Magnetic ink is used by the government which allows change machines and bill detectors to tell what type of bill the machine is counting. Rather than imprint the entire note with magnetic ink, only certain portions of the artwork are magnetized. Some counterfeit detection equipment scans for magnetism as part of its test.

Real money is printed on true presses and the ink is pushed onto the paper under pressure. Small counterfeit operations usually use inkjet technology because it’s fairly inexpensive and creates adequate results. The problem with inkjet is it’s not permanent and the quality is noticeably worse than real money.

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Luckily many of the counterfeit hundreds originate from underground drug deals and rarely make it to mainstream trade. Counterfeiters produce small quantities of fake hundreds and use them for illicit black market purchases. Most of those bills are picked up by bank tellers and others who handle large quantities of cash.

Creating a high quality counterfeit bill requires much more than a Xerox machine and good paper. A true counterfeiter would need access to a Heidelberg press, 100% rag paper, and specialized inks. Reproducing previous generations of bills is certainly much easier than this year’s C note.

Like most people, just after purchasing my first scanner I scanned and printed a dollar bill. The quality was remarkable for mid 90’s technology and probably could have passed the bill off if it had been printed on better paper. Luckily for our economy money isn’t easy to reproduce or I probably would have been a counterfeiter and not a repair technician.

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(Jeromy Patriquin is the President of Laptop & Computer Repair, Inc. www.LocalComputerWiz.com.)

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Carefully. The Treasury Department takes a dim view of such activities, and spends considerable time and energy tracking down counterfeiters. And the sentances counterfeiters receive are often rather harsh. Making counterfeit money can be done with a wide range of techniques, from low-tech to very high-tech. (The real problem is how easily the counterfeit bills can be passed, but that's a whole different question.) Some counterfeiters will cut the corners out of, for instance, a $10 bill and glue them in place over the corners of a $1 bill. In the 70s someone in the small town where I lived simply made color copies of bills and glued them back-to-back and was able to pass several around town before he was appreheded. Other counterfeiters use cutting-edge technology to make bills that can be hard for the average person to recognize as counterfeit. Counterfeiting US money starts with the paper used for bills, which is very special and very hard to duplicate. Aside from the quality of the paper, there are small red and blue threads embedded in it. One way counterfeiters have gotten around this is by actually printing the small threads on the paper. Another way is by taking $1 bills and 'washing' them in some way to remove the ink, and then reprinting them as $20s. But recent changes to American bills make duplicating the paper even more difficult, as each new bill now has a strip embedded in the paper it's printed on. And to keep counterfeiters from pulling the trick of using paper from lower denomination bills, a watermark portrait has been added to the paper that echoes the portrait on the bill. Hold a new bill up against the light, and you'll see both the strip and the watermark portrait on the right side of the bill. The next problem is the printing. With the state of modern desktop publishing, this no longer calls for the skills of a master engraver, as it once did. Still, cutting-edge technology is required, as the engraving on genuine bills is designed to be difficult to reproduce well. The fine-lined borders and details and the microprinting which are crisp and clear on a real bill are generally a bit fuzzy and poorly defined on counterfeits. The final problem to creating counterfeit bills is the 'color shifting' ink that has been added to new bills. While various 'color-shifting' paints are now available, my guess is that it would be difficult to find one that duplicates the colors used on bills. (Not to mention applying it accurately.) So the very first step to counterfeiting money (or being able to detect it) is to examine real money very carefully and become familiar with all the various anti-counterfeiting features. You can find this information at the following site: http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/aboutNotes
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skydivebenny
Depends all on the country where the currency is. Some is very very easy to make, other places such as Vietnam have made 'plastic' money which can't be done 'low tec'. Regardless of what money you choose to create, keep in mind that one.. if you are caught. you are going to be in very serious trouble.. is it really worth it? Even making $100 dollars in funny money can land you in a whole wack of trouble. Detectors of funny